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Early Detroit
The feud between them and De la Motte burned with unquenchable fierceness. They looked upon the savages as their peculiar inheritance, and they could tolerate no effort for their control, from which they were to be excluded; and well they knew the power that De la Motte could and would exert over them.
From the very first, too, it had the settled and almost fatal opposition of the Governor General. Unlike other posts, it was established by the direct command of the King, De la Motte receiving his commission and his original orders direct from His Majesty, and not from or through the Governor General.
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