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Nor can it be pretended that they are not answerable for the atrocities perpetrated, since the savages are employed with a knowledge, and even with menaces, that their fury could not be controlled.
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Madison asserts that the British are responsible for the violence committed by their Native allies, as they knowingly unleashed them.
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