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any other; their vaunted policy of peace, which for- 

 bade them to play a true man's part and put down 

 wrong-doing, caused the utmost possible evil to fall 

 both on the white man and the red. An avowed 

 policy of force and fraud carried out in the most 

 cynical manner could hardly have worked more ter- 

 rible injustice; their system was a direct incentive 

 to crime and wrong-doing between the races, for 

 they punished the aggressions of neither, and hence 

 allowed any blow to always fall heaviest on those 

 least deserving to suffer. No other colony made 

 such futile, contemptible efforts to deal with the In- 

 dian problem ; no other colony showed such supine, 

 selfish helplessness in allowing her own border citi- 

 zens to be mercilessly harried; none other betrayed 

 such inability to master the hostile Indians, while, 

 nevertheless, utterly failing to protect those who 

 were peaceful and friendly. 



When the Moravians removed beyond the Ohio, 

 they settled on the banks of the Muskingum, made 

 clearings in the forest, and built themselves little 

 towns, which they christened by such quaint names 

 as Salem and Gnadenhutten ; names that were pa- 

 thetic symbols of the peace which the harmless and 

 sadly submissive wanderers so vainly sought. Here, 

 in the forest, they worked and toiled, surrounded 

 their clean, neatly kept villages with orchards and 

 grain-fields, bred horses and cattle, and tried to do 

 wrong to no man; all of each community meeting 

 every day to worship and praise their Creator. But 

 the missionaries who had done so much for them 



