350 HISTORY OF 



in the absence of human beings, as well as in the absence of 

 houses. 



" An Indian conference was held, August 9, 1762, and a treaty 

 made at Lancaster, which restored, for a short period, the tran- 

 quility of the inhabitants." 



Members of AssemUy from Lancaster county, 17G1 and 1762 — 

 Emanuel Carpenter, James Wright, James AVcbb, John Doug- 

 lass. 1763, Isaac Saunders and those before named, except 

 James Webb. 1764, James Webb, and those of 1763 except 

 John Douglass. 



CHAPTER VII. 



Tendency of war— Hostilities continued — Lancaster county exposed to 

 Indian incursions, &c. — Treachery of the (Jonestoga Indians — Paxton 

 and Donegal Rangers watch the Indians closely — The Paxton Boys 

 surprize the Indians at Conestoga — Indian villagers massacred — Those 

 abroad taken under protection by the magistrates of Lancaster — Governor 

 Penn's proclamation — The Paxton Boys at Lancaster; massacre the In- 

 dians — Governor Penn issues another jiroclamatlon — The Paxton Roys 

 prow desperate, and " bhow up some Indian'' — Resort to J'hiladelphia — > 

 Their jion-commendable conduct there — They return peaceably to their 

 homes, leaving two of their number to represent their grievances to the 

 Assembly. 



In war, and in the midst of the calamities of war, the 

 ordinary sympathies of our nature seem to forsake man. 

 In the savage, war whets the destructive propensities, 

 and his thirst to shed !)Iood increases in ardency as tlie 

 numher of his victims swells. Total extirpation only cir- 

 cumscrihcs his sphere of slaughter; hence, the indis- 

 criminate murders of the innocent and the guilty, hy the 

 savage. War makes demi-savagcs of the civilized, and 

 the dcmi-savage, though \\q formerly felt his whole soul 

 thrilled at hearing of, or seeing, the nmrder of one single 

 individual, in turn, when inured to th.e miseries of war, 

 can listen to the report of countless murders as an anmsing 



