350 HISTORY Of 



in the absence of human beings, as well as in the abs6ii<5e 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 Assemhhj from Lancaster couniy, 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 — liancaster county exposed ta 

 Indian incursions, &.c. — Treachery of the Conestoga Indians — Pax ton 

 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 liancaster— Governor 

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

 dians — Governor Pcnn issues another proclamation— The Paxton Boys 

 grow desperate, and " bhow up some Indian"— Resort to Philadelphia — 

 Their no'i-comracntlable conduct there — They teturn peaceably to their 

 homes, leaving two of their number to represent their grievances to th« 

 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 slied blood increases in ardency as the 

 number of his victims swells. Total extirpation only cir- 

 cumscribes liis splicrc of slaughter; hence, the indis- 

 criminate murders of the innocent and the guilty, by the 

 savago. War makes demi-savages of the civilized, and 

 the dLini-s'.'Vage, thougii he former/?/ felt his whole soul 

 thrilled at heariiig of, or seeing, the murder of one singla 

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

 can lictc'^ t j the report of countless murders as an amusing 



