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Show 1:0 [A2 B.T.] Offcmrz'tz'erfir peace, &C. r 51 {upplied by the French and carry their prifoners to them, we can by complaining obtain no re- CANADAPAMPHLET. attempt to encroach upon us, by building a fort even in the oblburcr'l corner of thele iflands, mutt therefore be known and prevented immediately. The aggrcfiors alto Ulull. be known, and the na- drels; as the governors ofCanada have a ready excufe, that the Indians are an independent peo- ple, over whom they have no power, and for Whofe actions they are therefore not accountable. tion they belong to would be accountable for their aggretlion.~n--ltiAmerica it is quite otherwife. A vait wilderneis, thinly or {carce at all peopled, conceals with we the march of troops and work- ---Surely circumitances f0 widely different, may reafonably authorife different demands of fecurity men. in America, from fuch as are ufual or neceflary in Europe. Impou: it pafies may be feized within our limits, and tints built in a month, at a {mall expence, that 1: ay coft us an age, and a million to remove. De. 1‘ experience has taught us this. But what is flill rem; c, the wide extended foref'ts between our tettlements and theirs, are inhabited l t t S I "l"‘l"'"ll‘fl"f‘ wvr‘. w l by barbarous tubes of ravages that delight in war, and take pride in murder; fubjeéts properly nei- ther of the French nor Englifh ; but Ptrongly attached to the former by the art and indefatigable l l t r c induftry of priefts, fimilarity of fuperftitions, and 6 t frequent family alliances. Thefe are eafily, and have been continually, initigated to fall upon and C t mafiacre our planters, even in times of full peace between the two crowns; to the certain diminu- tion of our people and the contraet'on of our {etc t1ements*. And though it is known they are fupplied I ( c c I t I c t * A very intelligent writer of that country, Dr. Clark, in his their {upplies were from them ; and there are now original letters of feveral Jefuits to be produced, whereby it evidently appears that they were continually animating the Indians, when nlmoli tired with the war, to a farther profccution of it. The French not. only excited the Indians, and {upportcd them, but ioined their own forces with them in all the late hofiilities that have been committed within his Majelty's province of Nova Reotia. And from an intercepted letter this year from the Jefuit at l'enob« fcot, and from other information, it is certain that they have been ufing their utmofi endeavours to excite the Indians to new acts at hofiility againfl his Majelty's colonv ofthe Maflltchuletts Bav; and (Dine have been committed. The French not only excite the Indians to afls'of hoftility, but reward them for it, by [rs/vino 1/1: Eagliflj prrfomr: of 111m: for the ranfom of each of which they afterwards demand of us the price that is ufually given for a (lave in there colonies. They do this under the {pecious pre~ tence of referring the poor prifoners from the cruelties and bar~ barities of the favages ; but in reality to encourage them to con tinue their depredations, as they can by this means get more by t 4 hunting the Englil'h, than by hunting wild-beads; and the French t Indians, entirely at (In) mpwre of 1/75 Eng/21'23 Obfervations on the late and prefent Conduet of the French, &c. printed at Bofion 1755, fays, crowns. Of this there are many undeniable inflances: The war between the Indians and the colonies of the Maflhchufetts Bay and New Hampfhire, in 1723, by which thote colonies futfered {0 much damage, was begun by theinlligation of the French - at the fame time are thereby enabled to keep up a large body of ‘ The Indians in the French intereft are, upon all proper oppor‘ tunitles, infligaled by their priq/Ii, (who have generally the chief ‘ management of their public councils,) to ails of hottility againit ‘ the Englifh, even in time of profound peace between the two 3 f crowns. The |
