less and peaeeable Cheyennes at Sand Creek, and have threat- ened to do again to hclpless and peaccable Utes in 1880. The ready on the fronticrsman's tongue word "externmination" is as to-day as it was a hundred years ago; and the threat is morc portentous now, seeing that we are, by prospcrity, stronger and more nnmerous, and the Indians are, by a whole century of a whole century of suffering and oppression, fewer and weaker. But our crinie is baser and onr infamy deeper in the same proportion.

Closo npon this Conestoga massacre followed a removal" of friendly Indiansthe earliest on record, and one whose eruelty and cost to the suffering Indians well entitle it to a plaee in a narrative of massacres.

Everywhere in the provinces fanaties began to renew the old cry that the Indians were the Canaanites whom God had destroy; and that these wars were a commanded Joshua to token of God's displeasure with tlhe Europeans for permitting the heathen " to live Soon it became dangerous for a Moravian Indian to be seen anywhere. In vain did he carry one of the Pennsylvania governor's passports in his pocket. He was liable to be shot at siglht, with no time to pull his passport out. Even in tho villages there was no safety. The devoted congregations watched and listened night and day, not know ing at what hour they might hear the fatal warwhoop of hos- tile members of their own race, coining to slay them; or the sudden shots of white settlers, coming to avenge on them out- rages committed by savages hundreds of niles away.

With every report that arrived of Indian massacres at the North, the fury of the white people all over the country rose to greater heiglıt, inelnding oven Christian Indians in its un- reasoning hatred. But, in the pions language of a narrative written by one of the Moravian missionarics, "God inelined the hearts of the chief magistrates to protect them November 6th an express arrived from Philadclphia, bringing an or