An injustice they were not, like the assembly, under any necessity of committing for the public good, or any other necessity but what was imposed on them by those base passions, that act the tyrant in bad minds; their selfishness, their pride, and their avarice.
Franklin condemns the assembly for committing injustices driven by negative human traits.
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But such, it seems, is the unhappiness of human nature, that our passions, when violent, often are too hard for the united force of reason, duty, and religion.
Believing therefore, that it is my duty, I shall honestly speak my mind in the following paper.
It is upon this fact I found the propriety of the measure of settling a barrier colony in those parts of our frontiers, which are not the immediate residence or hunting-grounds of our Indians.
II. p. 118.--The truth is, that the Indians considered their lands as mere hunting-manors, and not as farms.
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