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    brought no evidence to prove thc ^ contrary . His first quotation" is from thp report of the committee of Pennsylvania frien ? cfe , ' running

    from 1795 to 1805 , or 1 S 0 G , in which 'they say that I > efore thtey sent any person among the Iitdi ~ ans , they addressed a letter to the various tribes , accompanied with one from the Secretary of

    State , expressive of the approba * . tion of the executive government of the U . S . i . e . it gave them permission to go among them for the purpose stated , and wished them success : here is not a word

    that that very government had appropriated ever since 1 7 $ ^ , 15 000 dollars annually for that very purpose , nor the least ititimation thai the government of the U . S . did any thing m like what they were doing . Next follows

    his quotation from tfyc committee of Baltimore friends , during the same period , from which he quotes en address made by their committee to some Indians ui 1804 , in which they tell those Indians , We believe it is in the heart of the

    President ' to assist you in cultivating the earth , and if you will do as we advise you , it will encourage him to continue to aid you in your endeavours : " which would be naturally taken for the

    good will that the President individually bore them : at least here was a fair opportunity to state what the government had done , and was doing , but they mention not a syllable of this , at a time when they could not be ignorant

    that the above sum was annually appropriated to that purpose by the government , but instead tlierovff If you do what we advise you , what we are the promoters of , the President may be inclined to continue to aid you tUercm , Ue-

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    ibre they published ,-their reports , I think it becatiieT tliSrn openl y , candidly and fairly to have staged thiat the government was engaged fn a Similar work , if they had not wished to claim all the merit

    of it themselves ; but not one word of this candour has Mr . D . produced . A $ the INlonthly Reviewers &nd your Revjewetjs in the pagqi above , referred to , consider the ; Quakers as the sole and eti ] j agents in this honourable 'Work ,

    from the perusal of their publications ., it . shews that I am hot singular in considering them as laying claim to the merit of it . Mr . D . next states that I am in an error in saying , that a legacy of 5000 / . was left to the Quakers

    wards that purpose ? that is what I understood from conversing with tlje gentlemen there stated .,,, and

    if an error I must have misunderstood them , but this does not affect the ^ maih point of my observations I . must beg leave to-. inform

    Mr . D . that I have hot used such hard Words a ? arrogaht and invidious , and as to a superficial reading shewing the erroneousness of my statement , that will better

    become his side of the argument than mine , for he considers the assent of the executive government a * id the good will of the President as amounting to a

    declaration of the Quakers , that the government were engaged in a similar work , and had met with considerable success therein ; else his quotations are not relevant * Mr . D . also talks about the

    difficulty , invidi < J > ushess and Uselessness of appreciating strictly the merit of "' djny Jbody of men , but the investigation of truth I do not consider as useless , inviaious or difficult ; let the trutk be

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    670 Mr . Brookes , on the Civilization of the Indians ^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 670, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2399/page/34/