550 mSTORT 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 Assembly from Lancaster county, 1761 and 1762— 

 Emanuel Carpenter, James Wright, James Webb, 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 Conestoga Indians — Paxton 

 and Donegal Rangers watch the Indians closely — The Paxton Bovs 

 surprize the Indians at Conestoga— Indian villagers massacred — Those 

 abroad taken under protection by the magistrates of Lancaster— Governor 

 Penn's proclamation — The Paxton B03-S at Lancaster; massacre the In- 

 dians — Governor Penn issues another proclamation — The Paxton Bovs 



gvovf desperate, and " show up some Indian" — Resort to Philadelphia 



Their won-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 om' nature seem to forsake man. 

 In the savage, war whets the destructive propensities, 

 and his thirst to slied blood increases in ardency as the 

 number of his victims swells. Total extirpation only cir- 

 cumscribes his sphere of slaughter; hence, the indis- 

 criminate murders of the innocent and the guilty, by the 

 savage. War m^^kes demi-savages of the civilized, and 

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

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

 individual, in turn, when inured to the miseries of war, 

 can hsten to the report of countless murders as an amusins: 



