American kinsmen have pretty nearly completed the spoliation of the Red Indians of North America. These processes have usually been cruel and unjust, but it is the work of an archeologist, rather than a statesman, to investigate the original titles by which most of the earth's surface passed to our ancestors. None but a dreamer could seriously think that modern titles should be impugned because Alaric, or Attila, or William the Conqueror acted unjustly. Modern civilization is the web woven of the warp and woof of conqueror and conquered, and it is well for humanity that time, winch wears away all things, covers with the mantle of oblivion the rough processes by which they were knit together. Nations that are wise seek to bury the hatchet; it is only worthy of children to be ever seeking to keep alive race injuries that are irreparable and hoary with antiquity.

"Indeed, these very processes by which the land of most countries has been transferred, have been, in truth, the prelude to a higher civilization. No educated man can doubt that the Norman Conquest has made England a greater nation than it would otherwise have been; and every historian admits that the warlike tribes which overran the rotten and effete Roman Empire paved the way for the far higher civilization of modern Europe. I dismiss, as the dream of Utopia, the idea that modern land tenure can be upset because, ages ago, they originated in conquest" ("The Nationalisation of the Land," by SAMUEL SMITH, M.P.).

Common sense approves of the law that in all countries bars inquiry into wrongs after a lapse of years. In England, forty