to war with another if it has nothing to gain thereby and therefore needs no treaty to restrain it from violence and if it have any thing to gain x much question from what i have witnessed of the righteous conduct of whether any treaty could be made so that it could not thrust the sword through nay i would hold ten to one the treaty itself would be the very source to which resort would be had to find a for thus therefore i conclude that though it is the best of all for a nation to keep up a constant tion with its neighbours yet it is the summit of folly for it ever to be b into a treaty for then comes on the non and then remonstrance then then then and finally war in a ia like courtship a time of sweet words gallant speeches and caresses but the marriage is the signal for s history of chapter iv mat greatly hy a e n md his if my pains taking reader be dot in the of the m of my lie will al one glance perceive that the great in concluding a with his eastern of a lamentable error and m to this agreement may justly be world of which afterwards took between the and the evil council of an au these did not a little disturb the serenity of the good of but in they were so very in nature and grave historian who the time q ent in any thing less than the of and the of worlds would think them unworthy to be inscribed on his sacred page the reader is to take it granted though i scorn to waste in the detail that time which my brow and trembling hand inform me is that � i the while the great peter was occupied in those tremendous and bloody that i shall shortly there was a continued series of little dirty and made m the eastern by the moss of but like that mirror of chivalry the sage and don i leave these petty for some of a historian while i reserve my and my pen for achievements of higher dignity now did the great peter that his had new york come to a in the east and that he had nothing to do but apply himself to the internal prosperity of his beloved though a man of gi at modesty he could not help he had at length shut the temple of w and that ere all rulers like a certain who should be nameless it would be opened again but the exultation of the worthy governor was put to a speedy or scarce was the treaty and hardly was tbe dried on the paper before the and council of the league sought a new pretence for the flames of discord it s to be the nature of and like powers that want the true masculine character to indulge exceedingly in feminine and suspicions like some good lady of delicate and virtue who is in constant dread of having her purity or and who if a man do but take her by the hand or look her in the ce is ready to cry out i and ruin � so these are perpetually on the alarm for the virtue of the country � every manly measure is a of the � every or other masculine government around them is laying for their and they ai fer ever detection infernal plots by which they were to b betrayed and brought upon the town � � � if any proof were wanting of the truth of these i instance the conduct of a certain republic of our day who good dame has already so many plots and against her virtue and has so often come near being made no better than she should be i her f poor old england who by her own account has been ii trying to j i never could believe the honest ad gentleman meant her any whereas on i have several times sl history of caught her hands and indulging in certain with that sad fi low who all the world knows to be a great of national to have all the in his neighbourhood to have every republic that ui hia way but so it is these seem always to gain singular with the ladies but i pardon of my reader for thus and mil endeavour in some measure to apply the ing remarks for in the year we are told die great of the east accused the pe ter the soul of honour and heart of steel that by gifts and promises he had been secretly to the or and indians to and the yankee for as the council ob served the indians round about for divers hundred to have deep of an or from the against the � n have sought their good both in bodily and spiritual history does not make mention how the great of the came by this precious plot it were honestly bought at a fair market price or discovered by sheer good fortune it is certain however that examined divers indians who au swore to the ct as as though th had been so many christian and to be more sure of their the sage council previously made every mother s son of them devoutly drunk remembering an old and proverb which it is not necessary for me to repeat though descended from a which mud ii from the lose of those times my great grandfather having had a yoke of oxen and his best stolen and having received a pair of black eyes and a bloody nose one of these border wars my ne w york � a very little boy tending pigs having been aiid severely by a long sided school yet i should have passed over all these wrongs with fo i and oblivion � i 