[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] |CARCELY had the peace of 1645 been concluded before the Dutch resumed their former intercourse with the Indians, as well as their former modes of promoting trade. The town of New Amsterdam was largely given up to the sale of brandy, tobacco and beer, and Indians were daily seen u running about drunk," through the streets. Every advantage was taken by the Dutch. The Indians were employed as servants, and defrauded of their wages; they were induced to drink, and while intoxicated were robbed of their furs or of the goods which they had purchased; they had standing complaint in regard to the sale of arms at Beaver-wyck, and found cause of grievance in the value which the Dutch attached to the lands which they had sold, which led them to believe that they had not been paid a sufficient price for them. The Minsis were especially aggrieved, and when the Swedes made their appearance on the South river and offered