The nauseating racism of this man is fully evident in this disgusting statement that he made before the Peel's Commission -
I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right.
I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.
This includes the Colorado territorial militia's slaughter of Cheyenne at Sand Creek (1864), and the US army's slaughter of Shoshone at Bear River (1863), Blackfeet on the Marias River (1870), and Lakota at Wounded Knee (1890).
I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right.
I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.
List of Red Indian massacres - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres
List of massacres of Indigenous Australians - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_of_Indigenous_Australians
Threlkeld
later claimed Major Nunn boasted they had killed 200 to 300 black
Australians, a statement endorsed by historian Roger Milliss. Other
estimates range from 40 to 70. 1838. Myall Creek massacre – 10 June: 28 people killed at Myall Creek near Inverell, New South Wales.
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