Benjamin Franklin: “And if I draw ill ones, can they fit any but those that deserve them?”

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.

II. p. 118.--The truth is, that the Indians considered their lands as mere hunting-manors, and not as farms.

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…

I apprehend, that excluding the people of the colonies from all share in the choice of the grand council will give extreme dissatisfaction; as well as the taxing them by act of parliament, where they have no representation.