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To: jttmab who wrote (139320)	7/8/2004 12:20:15 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Looks to me like the signers of the Declaration of Independence were largely upper middle class professionals and tradesmen, not patrician. I am not sure, offhand, what the passage in the Declaration refers to, but it has to do with frontier territory. I thought I had cleared up the confusion, I was talking about the short- sightedness of the French Crown. And I am not making a judgment about the way in which the Indians were treated, or the way they lived, per se. Different tribes played different roles at different times. Hardly anyone like the Pawnee, for example, including other tribes, while even whites like the Iroquois. I was only saying that the Indians rarely had a settled and effective claim over territory, and that it would have been foolish to have excluded enormous tracts from use by farmers or manufacturers just because Indians periodically passed through them.