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Title: The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905
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Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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for brandy, pow-der, lead, and a few cheap goods. The larger the tribe,the greater the profits. The missionary either was sent out among the savagesby his superior, or went voluntarily, at the call of con-science. Never, since the days of the Apostles, weresuch tasks assumed by mortal men. Unwelcome intrud-ers in the squalid wigwams of these fierce pagans, theywere in turn starved, spit upon, and tortured, not onlyin the spirit, but the flesh also. Joyful, indeed, wasthat day on which the missionary could claim even oneconvert. All had gone forth to a voluntary exile ; someto martjrdom itself. The missionary became an explorer, too, though he 10 THE ENTERING WEDGE studied the countiy witli a far different object from thetrader. Each, however, diligently worked to extend geo-graphical knowledge. The trader gave his employers anaccount from his stand-point; and the missionary wrotehis relation, with sometimes a rude pen-sketch or twoadded, to his superior. It is to him we owe by far the
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WISCONSIN INDIANS GATHERING WILD RICE. best and fullest accounts of the infancy of the Great West,because, if not always the best observer, he was by far thebetter educated man of the two. The trader carried in his haversack some cheap trink-ets, a roll of tobacco, and a bottle of brandy. The mis-sionary carried his breviary. It is a sobering thoughtthat the traders brandy probably did more harm than THE ENTERING WEDGE 11 the missionarys holy teachings did good. It is a humil-iating one that a savage should ever say to the whiteman, as these poor creatures did to their destroyers : You made us drunkards ; you gave us brandy, andnow we cannot live without it; we must have it. Hence traders and missionaries were never on the bestof terms. With good reason the traders feared the influ-ence of the missionaries, Avho wanted to make a man ofthe savage, while the traders would make him a sot. It is true that a few venturesome traders had gone intothis far-off region before the Jesuit fathers

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