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Savage legacy.(Letter to the editor)

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| March 22, 2009 | Pickering, John M. | COPYRIGHT 2009 Phi Beta Kappa Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

John Tirman, citing Richard Slotkin, writes of a "morally cleansing series of 'savage wars' that conveyed upon the pioneers a 'regeneration through violence.'" I fail to see moral cleansing in the triumphalism with which most Americans have viewed the realization of Manifest Destiny. My favorite forebears deplored the brutality of fellow citizens. Ben Franklin condemned the frontier Paxton Boys as "white ...

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