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it suited their dwn interests, they treacherously 

 abandoned their Indian allies to the impending 

 ruin. 57 



67 The ordinary American histories, often so absurdly un- 

 just to England, are right in their treatment of the British 

 actions on the frontier in 1793-94. The ordinary British his- 

 torians simply ignore the whole affair. As a type of their 

 class, Mr. Percy Gregg may be instanced. His "History of 

 the United States" is a silly book; he is often intentionally 

 untruthful, but his chief fault is his complete ignorance of 

 the facts about which he is writing. It is, of course, needless 

 to criticise such writers as Mr. Gregg and his fellows. But 

 it is worth while calling attention to Mr. Goldwin Smith's 

 "The United States," for Mr. Goldwin Smith is a student, 

 and must be taken seriously. He says: "That the British 

 government or anybody by its authority was intriguing with 

 the Indians against the Americans is an assertion of which 

 there seems to be no proof." If he will examine the Cana- 

 dian Archives, from which I have quoted, and the authori- 

 ties which I cite, he will find the proof ready to hand. Prof. 

 A. C. McLaughlin has made a capital study of this question 

 in his pamphlet on "The Western Posts and the British 

 Debts." What he says can not well be controverted. 



