Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.
The preparations for my new voyage prevented the possiblity of my paying that attention to the correction of my errors, that I should otherwise have done.
