text:  These half-bloods who united the apparent stupidity and real apathy of the Indian with the lawlessness and impatience of restraint of their white fathers found themselves driven out into a world that branded them for the accident of their birth; deprived of all property and reduced to the most ignoble employments; continual objects of fear and detestation to the better classes because they had nothing to risk and every thing to gain by a political convulsion