The Dutch are under obligations to us.

We have paid full price for everything we have purchased of them.
There is, therefore, no reason why we should supply them with corn and furs for nothing.

If we have ceded to them the country they are living in, we yet remain masters of what we have retained for ourselves." This unanswerable argument covered the whole ground.

The most illiterate Indian could feel the force of such logic.
Some European vagabonds, as it was afterwards clearly proved, stole some swine from Staten Island.

The blame was thrown upon the innocent Raritan Indians, who lived twenty miles inland.