cither to drive all Indians out of their State or kill them, just as the frontiersmen of Nebraska and of Colorado now intend to do if they Government is as strong to-day as the Government of the Prov ince of Penusylrania (and fail), as John Penn did, to push the helpless, hunted ereat- ures off somewhere into a temporary makeshift of shelter, for a tempoary deferring of the tronble of protecting them.

Sixteen years after the Conestoga massacre came that of Gnadenhütten, the blackest crime on the long list; whose equal for treachery and cruelty cannot be pointed out in the record of massacres of whites by Indians. We shall see whether the United States can. was in 1763; or whether it will try first a massacre

In the year 1779 the congregations of Moravian Indians liv ing at Gnadenlhütten, Salem, and Schonbrun, on the Muskingum River, were compelled by hostile Indians to forsake their vil lages and go northward to the Sandusky River. This move- instigated by the Euglish, who had become sus- ment was picious that the influenco of the Moravian missionaries was thrown on the side of the colonics, and that their villages safe centres of information and sapplies. These Indians hav iog taken no part whatever in the war, there was no pretext for open interference with them; but the English agents found it no difficult natter to stir up the hostile tribes to carry out their designs. And when the harassed congregations finally consented to move, the savages who escorted them were com manded by English officers.

The savages drove them forward like cattle," says an old narrative; "the white brethren and sisters in the midst, sur- were ronnded by the believing Indians." latter could not set out as expeditiously as the savages thought proper, they attacked the white brethren, and forced them to set out alone, whipping their horses forward till they grew "One norning, when the