[Footnote: Draper MSS.

From Parliament Library in Canada, MS.

"Canadian Letters," descriptive of a tour in Canada in 1792-93.] Anger of the Americans over Dorchester's Speech.
The publication of Lord Dorchester's speech caused angry excitement in the United States.

Many thought it spurious; but Washington, then President, with his usual clear-sightedness, at once recognized that it was genuine, and accepted it as proof of Great Britain's hostile feeling towards his country.

Through the Secretary of State he wrote to the British Minister, calling him to sharp account, not only for Dorchester's speech but for the act of building a fort on the Miami, and for the double-dealing of his government, which protested friendship, with smooth duplicity, while their agents urged the savages to war.