Importance of Gaining and Preserving the Friendship of the Indians. From: The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin; Including His Private as Well as His Official and Scientific Correspondence, and Numerous Letters and Documents Now for the First Time Printed, with Many Others Not Included in Any Former Collection, Also, the Unmutilated and Correct Version of His Autobiography. Comp. and Ed. by John Bigelow. New York and London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887-88

Download or read book Importance of Gaining and Preserving the Friendship of the Indians. From: The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin; Including His Private as Well as His Official and Scientific Correspondence, and Numerous Letters and Documents Now for the First Time Printed, with Many Others Not Included in Any Former Collection, Also, the Unmutilated and Correct Version of His Autobiography. Comp. and Ed. by John Bigelow. New York and London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887-88 written by Benjamin Franklin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an anonymously-published letter, Benjamin Franklin declares the importance of cultivating good relations between the British colonists in North America and the Native Americans. He suggests two means in particular of achieving this goal: "to regulate the Indian trade, so as to convince them, by experience, that they may have the best and cheapest goods and the fairest dealings from the English; and to unite the several governments, so as to form a strength that the Indians may depend on for protection in case of a rupture with the French." The bulk of the letter then is about the means for uniting the colonies.