Franklin on the Organisational Skills of English Colonies

See this letter From Benjamin Franklin to James Parker, 20 March 1751.

It would be a very strange Thing, if six Nations of ignorant Savages should be capable of forming a Scheme for such an Union, and be able to execute it in such a Manner, as that it has subsisted Ages, and appears indissoluble; and yet that a like Union should be impracticable for ten or a Dozen English Colonies, to whom it is more necessary, and must be more advantageous; and who cannot be supposed to want an equal Understanding of their Interests.

See Iroquois and The Iroquois Confederacy.

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