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The Jeffersonian cyclopedia;

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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


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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)