442 APPENDIX. 



of your eloquerice ? Who can widifiand the terror of your arm* ? The in- 

 vitation you have made, in the confcioufnefs of chnjlianily, your ro\al majla'f 

 clemency, and tht konor of fcldier/hip, we thankfully accept. The blood of 

 the flain, the cries of injured virgins and innocent children, and the never 

 ceafing fighs and groans of ftarving wretches, now langiiifhin^ in the jails 

 and prifon fhips of New York, call on us in vain, whilll vour fubiime 

 proclamation is founded in oureats. Forgive us, oh our country ! Forgive 

 us, dear polferity ! Forgive us, all ye foreign pov^ers, who are anxioufly 

 watching our conduct in this important Hru^ijle, if we yield implicitly to 

 the perfuafive tongue of the moft eKgaat co'onel oj lier viajejly's regiment of 

 light dragoons. 



Forbear then, thou vetagMnxmoa^lUutenant general ! Forbear to denounce 

 vengeance againft us. Forbear to give a (IrcUh to thofe reflorers of conjlitution- 

 al right, the Indian forces under your direHiun. Let not the mejfmgers ofjuf- 

 tice and zvrath await us in the f.e!d, and devap.ation, famine, and every concomi- 

 tant horror ^h^v our return to the allegiance of a prmce, who by his royal 

 •will, would deprive us of every blelFingot lite, with alt poffibic clemency. 

 We ate domejiic, we are iriduflrious, wc zre infirm and timid ; we fhall rf- 

 main quietly at home, and not remove "ur cattle, our coin, or forage, in hopes 

 you will come, at the head of troops, in the full powers of health, di.c'-pHne, and 

 valor, and take charge of them for yourfelves. Behold cur wives and 

 daughters, our flocks and herds, our goods and chaitcls, are they not at the 

 mercy of our lord the king, and of hi» lieutenant general, member of the houfc 

 of commons, and governor of For t William in North B? itain ? 



A. B. 

 C. D, 



E. F. &c. &c. &c. 

 Saratoga, loth July, 1777. 



No. V. 



Lord Chatham's Speech on the Indian toar and barbarity: Chap. IV. p. 134, 

 IN the time of the American war, it was the pradlice with the Britiih 

 lDip.i?fers and their adherents, in their fpceches iri the Britifli parliament, to 

 avow and juftify their meafures of einplt)yiiig the Indians to carry the hor. 

 rors and barbarities of their favage wars, into the American frontiers and 

 plantations. It was faid to be right, wife, and eventually a meafure of 

 mercy and clemency ; as it would foon put an end to the rebellion, and of 

 courfe to the necellity of any further war and deftiuftion, by reducing the 

 colonies to a flate of obedience and liibjcition to the Britiih king and na- 

 tion. Among others, lord Suffolk, fecretary of (late, highly cot-nmendcd 

 the meafure, and obfcrvcd, " Befides its policy and neceffity, the meafure 

 ■was alfo allowable on principle, for that it waj pcrfeftly juftifiablc to ufe 

 all the means that God and nature had put into oui hands." 



On thisoccafion, the venerable old pairiot lord Chatham, by whofe ad- 

 miniftration Canada had been conquered, and an tnd put to the Indian 

 ravages and fi.iughier, ro!e, and fpoke ; " I am allonilhcd, ihocked to hear 

 fuch principles confefTcd ; to hear them avowed in this houfe or even ia 

 ihiscountry. My lords, I did not intend to have encroached again on your 

 attention, but I cannot reprefs my indignation. I feel myfelf impelled to 

 fpeak. My lords, we are called upon as mcnibersof this houle, as mea. 



