McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
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P. The best security in the world. K.C. I doubt that, friend William; I have no idea of any security against those cannibals but in a regiment of good soldiers, with their muskets and bayonets. And mind, I tell you beforehand, that, with all my good will for you and your family, to whom I am under obligations, I will not send a single soldier with you. P. I want none of thy soldiers, Charles: I depend on something better than thy soldiers. K.C. Ah! what may that be? P. Why, I depend upon themselves; on the working of their own hearts; on their notions of justice; on their moral sense. K.C. A fine thing, this same moral sense, no doubt; but I fear you will not find much of it among the Indians of North America. P. And why not among them as well as others? K.C. Because if they had possessed any, they would not have treated my subjects so barbarously as they have done. P. That is no proof of the contrary, friend Charles. Thy subjects were the aggressors. When thy subjects first went to North America, they found these poor people the fondest and kindest creatures in the world. Every day they would watch for them to come ashore, and hasten to meet them, and feast them on the best |
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