persons who sympathized with or protected Indians. They openly mockcd and derided the governor and his proclama- tions, and set olf at onec for Philadclphia, announcing their intention of killing all the Moravian Indians who had been placed under the prolection of the military there.

Their march through the country was like that of a band of maniacs. In a private lettecr wrilten by David IRitteulouse at this time, he says, "About fifty of these sconndrels inarched by uy workshop. I have scen hundreds of Indians travelling the country, and can with truth affirm that the behavior of these fellows was ten times more savage and brutal than theirs. Frightening women by running the mnzzles of guns through windows, hallooing and swearing; attacking least provocation, dragging them by the hair to the ground, and pretending some of their exploits."

It is almost past belicf that at this time many people justi- men without the to scalp them; shooting dogs and fowls: these are fied these acts. An Episcopalian clergyman in Lancaster wrote vindicating them, "bringing Seripture to prove that it was right to destroy the heathen;" aud the " they have a better justification-nothing less than the Word of God," says one of the writers on the massącre.

"With the Seriptures in their hands and mouths, they can set at naught that express command, Thon shalt do no mnr der,' and justify their wickedncss by the command given to Joshua to destroy the heathen. Horrid perversion of Script- ure and religion, Love and Pcace !" Iresbyterians think to father the worst of crimes on the God of It is a trite saying that history repeats it- self; but it is impossible to read now these accounts of the massacres of defenceless and peaceable Indians in the middle of the eighteenth century, without the reflection that the rec- ord of the nineteenth is blackened by the same stains. Vhat lelpless aud peaceable Indians of Conestogu, Colorado pioneers did in 1864 to help- Pennsylvania pionccrs did in 1763 to