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Show .11 ppcntli.t:. Marcl1 or beginning of fH'il. In the course of the season tbcy had JlOS'iC'S!!('d f.JJemsch ('S of t'HWJ skin the {ll(fians had prorul'cd, ofcom·sc thrr·e was an end of ta·;uJe~ but pre, ious to thcia· t·du•·n, thr lndians insist upon a credit bciug •)'ivcn I ( .. I . n on t ll' ;nt 1 fll paj'llH'nt when be rctua·ned the uext scasou. 'The fra<I<' I' umlet·stands his situation. a.ncllmowing Olis CI'Cdit\\ as nothing Jess than the 1n·icc of his passport, orOw }ll'i,,il(•gr of dcpar·ting in sat{·ty to IIi . )IOHlC, or ('Ofll'SC tlal'l'OWNl down the amount of this ca·edit, hy eoncraliug, a. fa1· as he could, to avoid the suspicions or the Jwlians. tbc remnant of ltis merehandisc. llut the anHmnt to he offel'cd must always he su<·h as they had b<•c·n aetustomcd to 1·c~ C'ivt•; and which. in cveJ'.Y case, bol'c a. consiflr•·ablc pt·opo1' fion to th<·it• whole (t'a.dc; say the fnJJ amount or thciJ• sumuwr ot· t•t•dsl'"iu hunt. 'L'he luc..lians well knew that the tr~ul••r" were in their power, and the ser·vilc motives which indm etl them to cxlend their liLet·alify to them, and wct·c th .l'efot·c the less !:>olicitous to meet theit· cngag'cmeuts on tht• <ht) of payment; to t hi. indifference they were furthct• Ul ~~~ct by f he ta·adcrs dish·ibunng am on:" them. on those occasious. Ulany ~l.J'ticles oflhc last necessity to them . rrhe conSe() fll'lll'(' was, that. when the ( t•a.ders rettu·ncll the ensuin; fall. if'th<'Y obtained only one half ol' their· ct·Nlits they were 'veJJ sati~fh·d, as this covcrccl theil' real expcnditu•·e. Again: il'it so happen, in the COlll'SC or the witJ(er's ti·ar. fie, that the lOSS('S or the tl'adct•, ~l'OWill<" out of tho indo- •J b lcm~e of thr Indians, and th iP c·xorlJitant exaetious uudct• the appcllution of e•·cdit, slwuld so J•cdu('C his sto<'k in tl'adc that he could not pay t.hc guvet·not· the lll'ice stipulalec.l fot• his lic<·n:c, and procure a. fur·tl~et· supply of goods inot•flet· to IH'Osccute his tra,le, the license was inHnC'diatcly ga·autcd to some otlwr inllividual, who, "ith an ample assortment of DH'l'cl&andisc, visits tlte place of rendezvous o(' Jtis pl•ccJeccsSOl', "illwut the intc.•J•polatiou or a single season. H did not unfi'NJlWHtly haptHm, tlm.t the iudi,iduals eugagcd iu this commerce, finding one of their JHtm.ber failin~ from the JJ ppendi~. rapacity or the Indian nation, with whirh he had been permitted to ta·acl•·, wet-c not so auxious to possess them ·elves of the privilege of tradiug with thai nation; tho governor, of course, rather tban loo;c all advnntagcs, would almte of hi~ demands eon~idcrably. 'J'he new tl'ade•· thus •·eHcvcd uf a considerable tn·oportion of the tax bol'ne hy his 1wcdeeessor, aml bcinn· dispost•cl to make a favou1·ahle impl't•ssion on the b minds of the ftulians, to whom he was about to introduce himsdf, would, for the Ht·st season at least, clispo!ie of his goods to those Indian on more mod<·t·ate f<'I'lllS than his llredcc<~ s sor had done. '!'he I ndia.ns now lind that the a~grcssions thry have pt•acti:;cd on thc-i•· fot'llHW tt·adcr, so f;u· l'rom pt·ovin; clch·imental to them, had pt•ocut·ed not only thcil· ex· onea·aliou from the pa) ment of the last credit ~iv<'n them by t.heit· former tl'ader, hut t.ha.t the pl'escut tl'adct• ful'nishecl them gomls on better l('l·ms than they Ita'' hrcu ~u·customcd to rt•ceive thrm. 'l'hus cncoul'aged by the cllccts of tl1is ra.pacion: }H>Ii<.·y. il '"as not to he ex1•e<'tcd tha.l they would a.ltct• nu.·ia· plan ol' O{H'I':d ion a.: itrrsptwted lht.'il· neW tra.<ler; or that Olt') should aplH'cciate the character of the 'vhitcs in gt•neral in auy othc1· manuet·, than as t•xprr.sseclin a 1)revailinn sent iuwut on L.hi · sul~jr .,•f, now romnwn among scvca·al nations mt the i\1 issoul'i~ to wit: u I hat. Lite whiL£: men a1·e lif,t! tlogs, the mol't' !fOIL bcol llitm £11Hf. ]Jlunllcr them, lh~ nwre .t;cwcls llzcy witlln·ing yon, a11A iln' cht:nlWI' they will sell Lhcm." 'l'his sentiment constitutes, a.t prt!scnt, the rule of action amung tltc Kanzas .• Siou *, ancl othet':-); and if it be not. hruken down by the ado1)tiou of som•~ ellicicnt. mea ·ures, it needs not the aid of any deep (•ale ulation to determine the sum of advanta~es which will result to the Amer·icau {WOille ft·om the trade of tlw . Missouri. rfhcse aggl'nssions on the paa·t of the Indians, wcJ'e cucoura~<·d h~ the pusillanimity of tho engagec~, who \lcchu·ed that they W(;rc not engaged to fight. 'rhc (•vils which flow~<l fl·om this system ol' exclusive il•adc, were sen!ib1y felt by the inhaiJitants of Louisiana. |