JOSEPH BRANDT, 
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have been taken, both by the French and 
English missionaries, to represent to them the 
infamy of torturing their prisoners; nor have 
these pains been bestowed in vain; for though 
in some recent instances it has appeared that 
they still retain a fondness for this horrid 
practice, yet I will venture, from what I have 
heard, to assert, that of late years not one pri¬ 
soner has been put to the torture, where 
twenty would have been a hundred years ago. 
Of the prisoners that fell into their hands on 
St. Clair’s defeat, I could not learn, although 
I made strict enquiries on the subject, that a 
single man had been fastened to the stake. 
As soon as the defeat was known, rewards 
were held out by the British officers, and 
others that had influence over them, to bring 
in their prisoners alive, and the greater part 
of them were delivered up unhurt; but to 
eradicate wholly from their breasts the spirit 
of revenge has been found impossible. You 
will be enabled to form a tolerable idea of 
the little good effect which education has 
over their minds in this respect, from the fol¬ 
lowing anecdotes of Captain Joseph Brandt, a 
war chief of the Mohawk nation. 
This Brandt, at a very early age, was sent 
to a college in New England, where, being 
possessed of a good capacity, he soon made 
very considerable progress in the Greek and 
