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many instances violated their rights as men in 
the most flagrant manner. The consequence 
has been, that the people on the frontiers have 
been involved in all the calamities that they 
could have suffered from an avengeful and 
cruel enemy. Nightly murders,, robberies, 
massacres, and conflagrations have been com¬ 
mon. They have hardly ventured to stir, at 
times, beyond the walls of their little habita¬ 
tions; and for whole nights together have they 
been kept on the watch, in arms, to resist the 
onset of the Indians. They have never dared 
to visit their neighbours unarmed, nor to pro^ 
ceed alone, in open day, on a journey of a few 
miles. The gazettes of the United States have 
daily teemed with the shocking accounts of the 
barbarities committed by the Indians, and vo¬ 
lumes would scarcely suffice to tell the whole 
of the dreadful tales. 
It has been gaid by persons of the States, that 
the Indians were countenanced in committing 
these enormities by people on the British fron¬ 
tiers, and liberal abuse has been bestowed on 
the government for having aided, by distribut¬ 
ing amongst them guns, tomahawks, and other 
hostile weapons. That the Indians were in¬ 
cited by presents, and other means, to act 
against the people of the colonics, during the 
American war, must be admitted; but that, 
after peace was concluded* the same line of 
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