And we gave him a raw deal instead, not once, but again and again.

We did it because we could do it without risk, because he was weaker and we could always beat him in the end.

And all the while we were doing it, there was our Bill of Rights, our Declaration of Independence, founded on a new thing in the world, proclaiming to mankind the fairest hope yet born, that "All men are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights," and that these were now to be protected by law.

Ah, no, look at it as you will, it is a black page, a raw deal.

The officers of our frontier army know all about it, because they saw it happen.