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Early Detroit
This caused him great heaviness of spirit; but the subject which caused him the greatest annoyance was the cessation of the brandy trade, by order of the King.
From the very foundation of the colony, the fur trade was the great source of gain, and brandy was one of the staple commodities of that trade. It soon began to work out among the poor Indians its legitimate fruits of misery and death.
The Jesuit missionaries were, of all others, in the best position to see this wretched fruition, and at an early day they commenced a determined warfare
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