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The Pontiac Manuscript
Today there is no other part to take; you must either be wholly French as we, or wholly English as they. If you are French, accept this belt for you or for your young men, and let them join us. If you are English, we declare war to you. We do not like to do so, because we know you as children of our great father like ourselves, and to make war against our brothers, on account of yonder dogs, gives us pain, and it would be a hardship for us to fight against you, because we are all French, and if we would decide so, we would no longer be French, and since we are, we should, all together, defend the interests of our father,, who is both yours and ours. Therefore, answer, my brothers, so that we may understand you, and look at this belt, which speaks to you or to your young men. "
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