HURRY IT'S URGENT!!!
Read the excerpt from “An Address to the Whites.”

The time has arrived when speculations and conjectures as to the possibility of civilizing the Indians must forever cease. A period is fast approaching when the stale remark—"Do what you will, an Indian will still be an Indian," must be placed no more in speech. . . . It needs not the display of language to prove to the minds of good men, that Indians are capable of accomplishments necessary to the formation of polished society. It needs not the power of argument on the nature of man, to silence forever the remark that "it is the purpose of the Almighty that the Indians should be exterminated."

What is most likely the meaning of conjectures as it is used in the excerpt?


defenses

guesses

conclusions

confirmations