[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] and in 1745, they had with great difficulty indeed been brought out in even inconsiderable force in behalf of the English. Perhaps this result was due in a great measure to the policy of the English in seeking through their alliances the promotion of trade; in neglecting to supply them with priests as self-sacrificing as were those sent out by France; in supplying the more immediate tribes with intoxicating liquors to their destruc tion, and in failing to cultivate the intimate relations with them 27 212 THE INDIAN TRIBES which formed so conspicuous a feature of the policy of the French. Whatever the cause, the French experienced little difficulty in transferring to themselves the moral support of the Senecas, and in securing the active alliance of the Lenapes and Shawanoes, as well as of the more western tribes, and to direct their blows for the possession of the Ohio valley against the English as their worst enemies. For their negative rather than their positive power, continued alliance with the confederates was desirable to the English. As enemies, they would be dangerous fr6m their familiarity with