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with the Loss of their Parents, their Children; their Wives or Relatives, 

 left Destitute by the Public, and exposed to the most cruel Poverty and 

 Wretchedness, while upwards of an Hundred and Twenty of these 

 Savages, wl.o are, with great Reason, suspected of being guilty of these 

 horrid Barbarities, under tlie Mask of Friendship, have procured them- 

 selves to be taken under the Protection of the Government, with a View 

 to elude the Fury of the brave Relatives of the Murdered, and are now 

 maintained at the public Expense. — Some of these Indians, now in the 

 Barracks of Philadelphia, are confessedly a Part of the Wyalusing In- 

 dians, which Tribe is now at War with us ; and the others are the Mora- 

 vian Indians, who, living with us, under the Cloak of Friendship, carried 

 on a Correspondence with our known Enemies on the Great Island. — 

 We cannot but observe, with Sorrow and Indignation, that some Persons 

 in this Province are at Pains to extenuate the barbarous Cruelties prac- 

 tised by these Savages on our murdered Brethren and Relatives, which 

 are shocking to human Nature, and must pierce every Heart, but that of 

 the hardened Perpetrators or their Abettors. Nor is it less distressing to 

 hear Others pleading, that although the Wyalusing Tribe is at War with 

 us, yet that Part of it which is under the Protection of the Government, may 

 be friendly to the English, and innocent: — In what Nation under the 

 Sun was it ever the Custom, that when a neighbouring Nation took up 

 Arms, not an Individual should be touched, but only the Persons that 

 offered Hostilities ? — Who ever proclaimed War with a Part of a Nation 

 and not with the whole ? — Had these Indians disapproved of the Perfidy 

 of their Tribe, and been willing to cultivate and preserve Friendship with 

 us, why did they not give Notice of the War before it happened, as it 

 is known to be the Result of long Deliberations, and a preconceried 

 Combination among them? — Why did they not leave their Tribe imme- 

 diately, and come among us, before there was Ground to suspect them, 

 or War was actually waged with their Tribe 1 — No, they stayed amongst 

 them, were privy to their Murders and Ravages, until we had destroyed 

 tiieir Provisions, and when they could no longer subsist at Home, they 

 come not as Deserters, but as Friends, to be maintained through the 

 Winter, that they may be able to scalp and butcher us in the Spring. 



And as to the Moravian Indians, there are strong Grounds at least to 

 suspect their Friendship, as it is known that they carried on a Correspond- 

 ence with our Enemies on the Great Island. — We killed three Indians 

 going from Bethleliem to the Great Island with Blankets, Ammunition, 

 and Provisions, which is an undeniable Proof that the Moravian Indians 

 were in Confederacy with our open Enemies. And we cannot but be 

 filled with Indignation to hear this Action of ours painted in the most 

 odious and detestable Colours, as if we had inhumanly nmrdered our 

 Guides, who preserved us from perishing in the Woods ; when we only 

 killed three of our known Enemies, who attempted to shoot us when we 

 surprised them. — And, besides all this, we understand that one of these 

 very Indians is proved, by the Oath of Stinton's Widow, to be the very 

 Person that murdered her Husband. — How then comes it to pass, that 



