Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

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.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

In my proper character, an officer of the United States army.