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Description: INVREF#CL6-? HENRY MOORE TELLERThe Terror of Native American Indian Tribes (1830 – 1914)UNITED STATES REPUBLICAN SENATOR FROM COLORADO 1876-1909,SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT CHESTER A. ARTHUR 1882-1885,PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE FOR THE SHORT-LIVED SILVER REPUBLICAN PARTY IN 1896&CIVIL WAR MAJOR GENERAL IN THE COLORADO MILITIA!Teller strongly opposed the Dawes Act, intended to break up communal Native American lands and force assimilation of the people, accurately stating that it was directed at forcing the Indians to give up their land so that it could be sold to white settlers. Among his most prominent achievements was authoring the Teller Amendment which definitively stated that, following the Spanish-American War, the U.S. would not annex Cuba rather that the purpose of their involvement would be to help it gain independence from Spain.<<>> HERE’S A LEAF SIGNED BY TELLER, REMOVED FROM A 19th CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, AND SIGNED: “H. M. Teller Colorado”The document measures 6” x 4” and is in Very Fine, Crisp and Clean Condition!<>>::<<>BIOGRAPHY OF THE HONORABLEHENRY MOORE TELLER Henry Moore Teller was born in Grange, New York, May 23, 1830 to a large family of ten children. He attended Rushford and Alford Academy in New York. After, he taught school, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1858.In 1858, Teller moved to Morrison, Illinois to become part of Johnson and Teller, attorney at law. The firm was advertised regularly in the Whiteside Sentinel.Johnson soon caught the "Go West, young man" bug, advocated in 1851 by Indiana newspaper writer John Soule. He left Illinois to set up his practice in Colorado. Henry Teller's brother then joined him in the law firm. By 1861 Henry, too, could no longer resist the big things going on out west, and he, too, moved to Colorado. There, he maintained his law practice, and was also involved in real estate, mining, and railroad development. The Civil War was in progress, and from 1862 to 1864 he served as a Major General in the Colorado Militia.Teller served in the Senate and Cabinet for over thirty years, and was connected with the Free Silver question, beginning in 1880. During that time, he did much in and out of Congress with tongue and pen. In 1892, he was instrumental in securing in the Republican National Convention a declaration in favor of bimetallism, and he was a conspicuous actor in the prolonged fight in the senate against unconditional repeal. His standing in the Republican Party, together with his great ability and high character, made him the leader of the Silver Republican Party.Teller's defense of Indian land rights conflicts with his stance on traditional Indian customs. As Secretary of the Interior in 1883, he promulgated a "Code of Indian Offenses" which sought to prohibit Native American ceremonial activity throughout the United States. Customs, dances, plural marriage, and other practices were to be prosecuted by a "Court of Indian Offenses" with authority to impose penalties of up to 90 days imprisonment and withholding government rations. The clear intent of the Code was to eliminate Indian culture on reservations. The Five Civilized Tribes were exempt from the code.At the Republican National Convention of 1896 in St. Louis, he was at the head of the revolt against the Republican platform and his withdrawal from the party that year cost the Republican candidate thousands of votes. The silver Republicans favored his nomination for the Presidency, and his state of Colorado voted for him on the first ballot in the Democratic Convention. After the nomination had been made he joined with other leading Silver Republicans in an address supporting the Democratic ticket. Unlike many other Silver Republicans, Teller never returned to the Republican Party and served as a Democratic senator for the rest of his career, becoming one of few politicians to switch parties. Teller helped the Democratic Party gain more power in Colorado, which was previously dominated by Republicans.Teller was one of the most outspoken opponents of the allotment of Indian land. Allotment was a process by which communal ownership of Indian lands would be ended and the land portioned out to individual Indians, the "excess" to be sold to the government. In 1881, Teller said that allotment was a policy "to despoil the Indians of their lands and to make them vagabonds on the face of the earth." Teller also said, “the real aim [of allotment] was "to get at the Indian lands and open them up to settlement. The provisions for the apparent benefit of the Indians are but the pretext to get at his lands and occupy them....If this were done in the name of Greed, it would be bad enough; but to do it in the name of Humanity...is infinitely worse.” Teller would be proven correct. Land owned by Indians decreased from 138 million acres (560,000 km2) in 1887 to 48 million acres (190,000 km2) in 1934.Historically, Teller is probably best known for sponsoring an amendment to the Joint Resolution for war with Spain, passed by the House and Senate on April 19, 1898.Teller died on February 23, 1914 and was buried at Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Colorado.

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