Citation Tocqueville

"That year the cold was exceptionally severe; the snow was hard on the ground . . . The Indians brought their families with them; there were among them the wounded, the sick, newborn babies, and old men on the point of death. They had neither tents nor wagons . . . I saw them embark to cross the great river, and the sight will never fade from my memory. Neither sob nor complaint rose from that silent assembly. Their afflictions were of long standing, and they felt them to be irremediable."

Tocqueville, De la Démocratie en Amérique