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This liquor that they introduce into our country is more to be feared than the gun and tomahawk.

— Little Turtle President Washington's Indian War: The Struggle for the Old Northwest, 1790–1795 (1985)

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I have been the last to sign this treaty; I will be the last to break it.

My forefather kindled the first fire at Detroit; from thence, he extended his lines to the head waters of Scioto; from thence, to its mouth; from thence, down the Ohio, to the mouth of the Wabash, and from thence to Chicago, on lake Michigan.

More of us have died since the Treaty of Greeneville than we lost by the years of war before, and it is all owing to the introduction of liquor among us.

President Washington's Indian War: The Struggle for the Old Northwest, 1790–1795 (1985)

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