By Francis D. Cogliano, Kirsten E. Phimister
Innovative the United States, 1763–1815: A Sourcebook is a set of dynamic fundamental assets meant to accompany the second one version of progressive the United States, 1763-1815: A Political background. whereas the constitution of the gathering parallels the textbook, both can be utilized independently to boot. every one chapter contains excerpts of the most important records from the progressive interval, and starts with a quick advent. A better half web site holds the total textual content of all excerpted records, in addition to hyperlinks to different beneficial on-line assets. This Sourcebook is helping provide scholars a feeling of the human adventure of that turbulent time, bringing lifestyles to the fight to came across the USA. for additional info and lecture room assets please stopover at the progressive the USA better half web site at www.routledge.com/textbooks/revolutionaryamerica.
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Generally, that its agents had instigated the Indians to hostilities since the Peace… His Excellency directed me to a full and complete investigation of the circumstances complained of, I was fortunate, in still having at this remote Post, so many of the necessary evidences. Solemnly convinced in my own mind that the charges in themselves were a base calumny & utterly without foundation. I felt myself peculiarly interested in their refutation, conscious that their chief object was to shut out eyes to the manifest infringement of the Treaty of Ghent, & to the horrible tragedy which they meditate against the Indians of the Mississippi.
So heavy Taxes tend to diminish a People. 6. The Introduction of Slaves. The Negroes brought into the English Sugar Islands, have greatly diminish’d the Whites there; the Poor are by this Means depriv’d of Employment, while a few Families acquire vast Estates; which they spend on Foreign Luxuries, and educating their Children in the Habit of those Luxuries; the same Income is needed for the Support of one that might have maintain’d 100. The Whites who have Slaves, not labouring, are enfeebled, and therefore not so generally prolific; the Slaves being work’d too hard, and ill fed, their Constitutions are broken, and the Deaths among them are more than the Births; so that a continual Supply is needed from Africa.
13. As the Increase of People depends on the Encouragement of Marriages, the following Things must diminish a Nation, viz. 1. The being conquered; for the Conquerors will engross as many Offices, and exact as much Tribute or Profit on the Labour of the conquered, as will maintain them in their new Establishment, and this diminishing the Subsistence of the Natives discourages their Marriages, and so gradually diminishes them, while the Foreigners increase. 2. Loss of Territory. Thus the Britons being driven into Wales, and crowded together in a barren Country insufficient to support such great Numbers, diminished ’till the People bore a Proportion to the Produce, while the Saxons increas’d on their abandoned Lands; ’till the Island became full of English.