RESPECTING THE INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA: WITH REMARKS ON THE ATTEMPTS MADE TO CONVERT AND CIVILIZE THEM. "Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility: they think the same of theirs. Perhaps, if we would examine the manners of different nations with impartiality, we should find no people so rude as to be without any rules of politeness; nor any so polite as not to have some remains of rudeness."-Dr. Franklin's Essay on the North American Savages. BY JOHN HALKETT, Esq. LONDON: PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH; AND HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. 90, CHEAPSIDE, AND 8, PALL MALL. 1825. Checked CONTENTS. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE CHARACTER OF THE NORTH INJUDICIOUS SYSTEM ADOPTED BY THE FRENCH IN IMITATING AND RETALIATING THE BARBARITIES OF THE INDIANS .................. TREACHEROUS CONDUCT OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT WITH REGARD TO THE INDIAN NATIONS-ABSURD ACCOUNTS OF KINDNESS OF THE INDIANS TO THE EARLY COLONISTS IN NEW ENGLAND-IMPRUDENT CONDUCT OF THE ENGLISH-HOSTILI- WAR WITH PHILIP THE CELEBRATED CHIEF OF THE POKANO- ATTEMPTS OF THE ENGLISH, PRIOR TO THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN NORTH AMERICA, TO CONVERT THE INDIANS.-SIMILAR |