I hardly thought this source was the one being used but the supposed quote 
is then from page 52 of a *64-page booklet*, TO LEAD AND TO SERVE: AMERICAN 
INDIAN EDUCATION AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE, 1878-1923 (Virginia Foundation for 
the Humanities, 1989) that contains mostly photographs of Indian artifacts 
and is classified as an 'exhibit catalogue.'  It only has a very brief 
history summary and analysis of US policy and practice in the education of 
Indians in the 19th and twentieth centuries, from the understandably biased 
viewpoints of the co-authors.  This is hardly a scholarly source upon which 
to demean a man's career and person of 100+/- years ago, as well as his 
colleagues in both houses of Congress who passed general budgetary 
constraints during the early 1900's.  Such a damning quote is not soundly 
referenced, it is simply 'attributed to' Texas Congressman John Hall 
Stephens.  All of this 'quoting' seems rather to be passing along a 
pass-along.

Please understand that I don't doubt for a second that racism occurred, and 
Stephens may well have been a racist but I don't know that and I haven't 
seen proof that anyone at this list does either.  I simply dislike seeing a 
man's person and legacy being so demeaned by this 'supposed' quote that may 
be untrue; likewise for other individual Congressmen of those times who have 
been portrayed here as 'all' thinking along lines of 'the quote' if they 
voted for federal budget constraints.  Is this bias?

Neil McDonald

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Frederick Fausz" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 3:16 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Indian Schools


> The page reference was obviously to the book described in the first
> paragraph of my post.  Why don't you get it and read it before
> throwing around the charge of bias?
>
> Fred Fausz