The
inhabitants of your country districts regard—wrongfully, it is
true— Indians
and forests as natural enemies which must be exterminated by fire and
sword and brandy, in order that they may seize their territory. They regard
themselves, themselves and their posterity, as collateral heirs to
all the
magnificent portion of land which God has created from Cumberland and
Ohio to the Pacific Ocean.
—Pierre
Samuel Du Pont de Nemours letter to Thomas Jefferson,
December
17, 1801
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