And truly if the Indians had wisdom enough to anticipate the consequences likely to result from the success of missionary schemes, they would not only reject the ministrations of such teachers, but expel them from their territories. The “pale faces” are always dangerous to the man of America. Wherever the sound of the Asiatic gospel has been heard, the roar of the European cannon has speedily followed. Brandy, Small Pox, and the Gospel, are the three principal blessings we have given to the red men. The consequences resulting from the two former, have been more extensive than those resulting from the latter. The whites must abandon their own vices before they can expect to civilize the Aborigines of America.
[Joshua Hobson, Printer, 5, Market Street, Briggate, Leeds.]
FOOTNOTES
[1] Robertson’s History of America, vol. 1. b. 3.
[2] Robertson’s History of America, Note 46.
[3] Penny Cyclopædia, Art. America.
[4] Buchanan’s Sketches of Indian History, vol. 1, p. 37.
[5] Montaigne’s Essay’s, Book, 1, Chap. 30, Cotton’s Translation.
[6] Discourse to the New York Society, p.p. 49, 50.