A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . d by the Dutch which had to be *°^®^^met; on the other the more serious and more alarming peril of Indianhostilities. VOL. I. 29 CHAPTER XVII. WAR WITH THE INDIANS. — THE SWEDES ON THE DELAWARE. Change of Policy toward the Indians. — Kiefts Cruel and Stupid Obsti-nacy.— Massacre of Indians by the Dutch at Pavonia. — Retaliations byTHE Natives. —
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . d by the Dutch which had to be *°^®^^met; on the other the more serious and more alarming peril of Indianhostilities. VOL. I. 29 CHAPTER XVII. WAR WITH THE INDIANS. — THE SWEDES ON THE DELAWARE. Change of Policy toward the Indians. — Kiefts Cruel and Stupid Obsti-nacy.— Massacre of Indians by the Dutch at Pavonia. — Retaliations byTHE Natives. — Murder of the Hutchinson Family at Annies Hoeck, —Dis-astrous Condition of the Colony. — Appeal of the People of New Amster-dam TO THE States General. — End of the War. — Kieft removed from Of-fice. — Territorial Encroachments of Rival Colonies. — The English at theEast. — A Swedish Settlement on the Delaware. — Fort Christina. — TheSwedish Governor, John Printz. The wisdom and justice which the Dutch had hitherto shown intheir treatment of the savages gradually disappeared under Kieftsadministration. The agents of the Company, in their intercoursewith the Indians, had been governed by a uniform practice; but when. Selling Arms to the Indians. trade was made free and competition grew with its increase, fraud andoppression followed among Indian traders, who had little regard —then as now — for any rules but the rules of addition and multiplica-tion. This reckless love of gain sowed the seeds of future trouble in 1641.] INDIAN HOSTILITIES. 451 supplying to the savages those arms which could alone make themvery formidable enemies, by putting into their hands the means ofavenging the wrongs which they both suffered and imagined. Inspite of all laws and all the dictates of common prudence, guns andammunition were sold to the Indians at enormous prices by the selfishtraders along the Upper Hudson, and even at Manhattan wheneverthe police could be ev
Size: 1938px × 1289px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookpublishernewyo, bookyear1876
