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* To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Bermondsey . sjrc , Augilst < Z 9 > 1808 . As I observe in your useful publication * , as well as in other periodical worksf , that to the ^ Quakers is inscribed the merit of the rational mode of civilization which is now carrying on among the Indians , in the United States of America , and as the . Quakers in their publications on the
subject claim the credit of it , without any reference to the government of America , to whom justly , I believe , the praise is due , I beg leave to send yon the following , which will shew the wisdom and humanity of the proceedings of that government .
In this country , where knowledge and science are rapidly diffusing themselves , it is to be laiDented that candor and liberality do not equally increase ; if they did , the daily publications would not so often sneer at the people of
the United States , nor treat tlheir conduct with scorn ; the govern - ment also would not be so much calumniated as it is , a government that is a pattern of justice rind equity to many European
powers , who are daily trampling both on the rights of their own Mibjecis , as well as that of neutral rations ; but they contemn lessons t > f wisdom or justice from a transatlantic power , which probably may be a great nation when they a ' iv , humbled in the dust .
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* J K « . BROOKES , ON THE CIVILIZATION OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS .
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I admire many of the principles and much of the conduct of the Quakers , but I am sorry to see that in this , they do not appear to give honour to whom honour is due , and therefore , are guilty of injustice and piracy in the moral world .
In Ramsay ' s Lifeof Washington it is stated , that about 1794 ? * - new system was begun by the go * vernmeiit for turning the Indians off from hunting to the employ * ments of civilized life , by furnish - ing them with implements , and
instructions for agriculture and manufactures , ( page 322 ) : That during Washington ' s administration , the Indians on the frontiers had been first compelled by force to respect the United States and
continue in peace , and afterwards a humane system was commenced for teaching them to exchange the tomahawk and hatchet for the plough , the hot % the shuttle , and the spinning wheel . ( Page 3 . 94- )
In Marshall ' s L'fe of Washing * ton , 8 vo . edition , vol . 5 , he states that Washington recommended this subject to Congress in hi * speech , 29 Oct . 1791 , ( p . 3770 and again 5 Nov . 17 Q 2 , ( p . 441 );
and I hat t lie Indians had been taught under his administration by arms and justice to respect the United States , and to continue in peace ; nn < l that an humane system had been established for civilizing , and for furnishing them
* Monthly Rep . vol . ii > p . 606 to 609 ; vol . iix . p . 287 , and I believe tome othe * places . I Mon . Review , vol . liii . p . 33 * ; vol . lvl . p . %%% .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/35/
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