JEDIDIAH MORSE

The marriage institution, in its purity would serve as a vehicle of civilization among the natives. Their practice of polygamy would fade away if simply discountenanced, because this practice ever yields and vanishes before the light of civilization and Christianity…there should be intermarriage between white men and Indian women to produce new generations who would merge with the American people.

To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys.... Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them.

The marriage institution, in its purity would serve as a vehicle of civilization among the natives. Their practice of polygamy would fade away if simply discountenanced, because this practice ever yields and vanishes before the light of civilization and Christianity…there should be intermarriage between white men and Indian women to produce new generations who would merge with the American people.

To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys.... Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them.