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The Pontiac Manuscript
He answered to them that he had promised his father the place should be free, and he meant he should find it so. In vain these gentlemen said to him that this war would ruin them and kept them from attending to their work, making use of the most impressive Indian expressions to let him know their sorrow. Pontiac persisted always in the same sentiment, and nothing touched him. He said in order to get, over the trouble sooner they had nothing to do but to join him for driving out the English and afterwards they could retire to their estates and wait for the French who must arrive. The Frenchmen answered that this was impossible and they could not do so because they had promised to be true to the English, and therefore they could not gain anything from one party or the other.
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