...entirely disregarded ; but were necessarily, to a considerable extent, impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as...diminished, and their power to dispose of the soil at their own will, to whomsoever they pleased, was denied by the original fundamental principle, that...

...soil from the natives, and of regulating the relations that were to exist between such government and the natives. The Indians were considered as being...possession of it, and to use it according to their own discre* tion. But their rights to complete sovereignty as independent nations, were necessarily diminished....

...Again : " They [the original inhabitants] were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, icith a legal as well as just claim to retain possession...and to use it according to their own discretion." p. 574. Yet, as the Indians could not sell to foreign nations, except to the discoverers and those...

...which land is at present in the possession of the Cherokees, no more proves that the Cherokees are not the " rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal...as well as just claim to retain possession of it," than the fact that A. is seized in fee of land, of which B. has a good lease to him and his assigns...

...which land is at present in the possession of the Cherokees, no more proves that the Cherokees are not the " rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal...as well as just claim to retain possession of it," than the fact that A. is seized in fee of land, of which B. has a good lease to him and his assigns...

...they either possessed or claimed to possess. The Indians were always " admitted by the crown to be the rightful occupants of. the soil, with a legal,...and to use it according to their own discretion," and of which they could not be dispossessed by legislation, but by conquest or cession only. . I have...

...the " original inhabitants," without restriction, of this continent, that " they were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as...and to use it according to their own discretion." " This is said, be it remembered, (we quote the remarks of William Penn) respecting Indians generally,...

...itfrom them by force; not to compel them to sell it: for, " they were admitted, say the court, to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain the possession of it, and to use it according to their own discretion." Although they are here called...

...a title to the soil, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy. The natives were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as...it, and to use it according to their own discretion, though not to dispose of the soil at their own will, except to the government, claiming the right of...

...the soil, which was subordinate to the ultimate dominion of the discoverer. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal,...it, and to use it according to their own discretion. In a certain sense, they were permitted to exercise rights of sovereignty over it. They might sell...