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«There is another consideration; the Canadians will increase much in population, and in a few years, more lands will be wanted for them, and it seems good policy that the frontiers should be settled by people professing different religions, speaking a different language, and accustomed to other laws and government from those of our restless and enterprizing neighbours of New-England.
That to make war with the Mohawks, would expose the Indians, who were neighbours to the English, some of whom professed christianity, etc.
Upon this head, I beg leave to observe that in all probability this Province, when the posts in the upper country shall be evacuated, will lose much of its importance in a commercial light, and that it will be a matter of great doubt whether it would be right to expend much money for the preservation of it, or at least it would never be worth the while to go to war about it, from hence it appears prudent to shun every thing which might bring on a rupture with the bad neighbours which surround us.
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