Scorn on the one side and hatred on the other generally marked the intercourse between the English and the Indians.

One bright exception must indeed be made.

Penn was a broad-minded lover of his kind, a man of most enlightened views on government and human rights; and in the colony planted by him there was made a serious effort to treat the Indian as an equal.

But the day came when men not of his faith dealt with the Indians in true English fashion.
Remembering this difference of treatment, we shall the better understand how it happened that the French could sprinkle the West with little posts far from Quebec and surrounded by the fiercest of tribes, while the English could only with difficulty defend their frontier.[1] [Footnote 1: A fine account of the Indians, and the French and English ways of treating them, is given in Parkman's _Conspiracy of Pontiac_, Vol.

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