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MICHIGAN CHAPTER 11 Pontiac Plans to Wipe Out the English Invaders
He reports Pontiac as saying: "It is important, my brothers, that we should exterminate from our land this nation, whose only object is our death. You must all be sensible as well as myself that we can no longer supply our wants in the way we were accustomed to do with our fathers, the French. They sell us their goods at double the prices the French made us pay, and yet their merchandise is good for nothing. Neither will they let us have them on credit, as our brothers, the
French, used to do. When I visit the English chief and inform him of the death of any of our comrades, instead of lamenting, as our brothers, the French, used to> do, they make game of us. If I ask him for anything for our sick, he refuses and tells us that he does not want us, from which it is apparent he seeks our death. We must, therefore, in return, destroy them without delay. There is nothing to prevent us. There are but few of them and we shall easily overcome them. Why should we not attack them? Are we not men? What do1 you fear? The time has arrived. Let us strike. Should there be any French to take their part, let us strike them as we do the English. Remember what the Giver of Life desired our brother, the Delaware, to do. This regards us as much as it does them.... There is no longer, any time to lose, and when the English shall be defeated, we will stop the way so that no more shall return upon our lands. " No doubt there were other speeches, but the record does not give them. When the council broke up it was agreed on all hands that an attack should be made upon the fort and plans were laid to carry this program into effect.
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