My father liked his Indian talk about the Great Spirit," Ridgeway said. "All these years late, I prefer the American spirit, the one that called us from the Old World to the New, to conquer and build and civilize. And destroy that what needs to be destroyed. To lift the lesser races. If not lift, subjugate. And if not subjugate, exterminate. One destiny by divine prescription--the American imperative.

The Underground Railroad