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- GLC#
- GLC02437.05596-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 3 September 1792
- Author/Creator
- McClure, David, 1748-1820
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- East Windsor, Connecticut
- Pagination
- 3 p. : address : docket ; Height: 24.2 cm, Width: 19.4 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
Writes concerning the state of the Indian wars. Though he prefers peaceful ways to settle the conflicts, acknowledges that "[p]acific measures which I wished ardently at first, are now probibly [sic] too late. When I wrote you, I knew not that so many attempts had been made to conciliate the hostile tribes, as I find by your public declaration, had been made." States that "The calamity of the Indian war, is, I think productive of one great good of the negative kind, which is the prevention of a too extensive emigration over the western Territory, Were this embarresment [sic] removed thousands would spread themselves over that boundless region from the Lakes to the Missisipi [sic] & I have no doubt would gradually & speedily lose the habits of subordination in society, the restraints of law & government & the means of education & religion & adopt the habits of savages ... "
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