Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1846-01-01
SCELL A n ECU S
For the Port Tobacco Times.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS
SINCE.

SINCE.
NV tale is of the native, whose sad fate,
Is now by our race (but far too late)
M0urned for. Let me record scene OF blood,
Where face to face the white and redman stood.
From the first settlement of New England,
the Indians living in the northern and more
remote parts of the new Provinces, always
evinced most decided hostility to the
whites. Their mode of warfare was as cruel
and sanguinary as their attacks were sud-
den and unexpected: and, at the time ]
write of, while the troubles of England and
France had furnished their subjects, on this
side of the water, with sufficient excuse
for committing hostilities upon each other,
the Indian of the North was invariably in
cited to acts of revenge, for the encroach-
ments of the English, by the French of
Canada and Nova Scotia.
Often, during the silent watches of the
night in the dead of winter, have the I'M
suspecting inhabitants of the small villages
on the frontier been reused from their sum-
bers by the terrific yell of the warwhoop,
to witness the confagration of their homes
and the slaughter of themselves and families
by their merciless foe, whose only answer
to an appeal for quarter, unless influenced
by the prospect of heavy ransom, was
heard in the crack of the rifle, or given by
a blow of the tomahawk. Those who were
spared, were forced to endure almost every
hardship during long and rapid march to
the wilds of Canada Men were compelled
to witness the butchery of their wives by
the blood-thirsty Ratchet, when worn out
by fatigue, and babes were often torn from
their mothers breasts, and their heads dash
ed against tree or rock lest they should
impede their retreat. To avenge such afro
cities as these, expeditions were often plan
ued by the whites, and when successful
fearful indeed was the retaliation. No quar-
ter was asked or given. determination
was the war cry, and the blood of the young
and the old, without regard to sex or rank.
was mingled with the ashes of their wig
vans.
In the year 1925, party of between for
ty and fifty men belonging to the Provinces
of New Hampshire and Massachusetts,: de-
termined to punish the Pequawkets, tribe
of Indians living in what is now the western
part of Maine, and not far from the White
Mountains, for the numerous acts of cruelty
which they had committed against the
white settlers. The company was COM
manded by one Captain Lovewell, distn-
guished for his bravery and knowledge OF
Indian character. After long and tedious
march through the wilderness, they arrived
in the vicinity of the tribe, and encamped
on the banks of one of the beautiful lakes
so numerous in that part Of the county,
Early the next morning, as one of their
number was out searching for game, he dis
covered an Indian accommodating their camp
but who Immediately fled. This convinced
them that there was party of Indians near
and immediate preparation was made to re-
ceive them. About noon an attack was
made upon the camp. The whites, accus,
toned from the cradle to the use of fire
arms. and reared amid all the hardships in,
cident to life on the frontier at that time
were well skilled in Indian warfare, ant
fully their equals in stratagem. The con
test soon became warm and bloody. Eact