Benjamin Franklin: “Hence bad examples to youth are more rare in America, which must be a comfortable consideration to parents.”

But let us take a cool view of the general state of our affairs, and perhaps the prospect will appear less gloomy than has been imagined.

Our legal method of compulsion is by imprisonment: the Indians cannot and will not imprison one another; and if we attempt to imprison them, I apprehend it would be generally disliked by the nations, and occasion breaches.

You are a member of that parliament, and have formed part of that majority, which has condemned my native country to destruction.

And as there are already in the old colonies many thousands of families that are ready to swarm, wanting more land; the richness and natural advantage of the Ohio country would draw most of them thither, were there but a tolerable prospect…