6868. PRESENTS, To Indians.—
I hope
we shall give the Indians a thorough drubbing
this summer, and I should think it better perhaps
afterwards to take up the plan of liberal
and repeated presents to them. This would be
much the cheapest in the end and would save
all the blood which is now being spilt; in time,
too, it would produce a spirit of peace and
friendship between us. The expense of a single
expedition would last very long for presents.—
To President Washington. Washington ed. iii, 248.
Ford ed., v, 321.
(Pa.,
1791)