Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-11-08

were spent amongst the this stirTing drama was
DRAMA ALSO kept continually in action and rememoanee
vet by fatality the OF action were not placed on record
by those who cognzan oil the moral, whilst on 'ne
other side the catastrophe was made available 70 brand le
whites ON the frontier by those who neither knew ror ooS
pains to learn the real action AS have already
observed the return the Moravans from Pittsburgh 10 the
Muskingum was condemned in no measured terms py the
frontier inhabitants whatever might be otherwise their indi-
vdua shade of opinion. Haassed by recurring savage mua
ders end regarding as they naturally did, though doubt
exaggerated degree the Moravian Indians as sPes'
accompices, with the savage placed tne iaer su
alton of extreme peril
Under such opened 1852 the Ohio region
and the return Of the poor desncesss Moravsns into the
white settlements regarded imperative, planned The
danger was oreseen enung this duty to eIapeated
by the destruction their relations and friends Of both
and all ages men who boyhood had been led to regard
the scalp savage Indian the highest trophy Not that
these for moment suspected OF deliberate
design their hands in the blood of unarmed and
unressng people, but oo-wel feared danger, that
circumstances gh which would thirst for
vengeance against the race civilized Of the Indian
and destroy moral CONTROL the only discipline possessed by
the officers The excessively difficult task was mPerativey
forced upon David Williamson and few other leading men,
undertake the prominent position Of commanders who as
body williamson fearessly assert from knowledge Of
himself and relatives regarded by the public at the time
having accepted the nominal command in order to SAGE,
destroy.
In brief the campaign planned made up and reached
the Morsvan towns The people made resistance but
commenced preparations to but ALAS amongst their
effects were found clothing identified have belonged to
persons eae. who had been murdered by the savages
in vain that the deencefes people and the Moravans
pleaded that they had over the warriors Innocent
doubt of any participation in murder, their impudence
disarmed The white officers, and, If spark had been
thrown on gunpowde all control the most powerful
passion of followed and ndsciminate murder the
consequence Human history abounds with such Incidents
where revenge takes precedence all human reflections
consequences and where innocence made suffer for crimes
of others. Though David Williamson risked bis life stay
the which with horror he Witness yet al
the whole eboquy of the placed bis head and
poisoned his whole after life, and imprinted stigma his
memory.
The massacre of the Moravian Indians, let its remote
be wha, they might the prelude other
Of blood and attending calamity. Immediately after the
turn the expedition the Moavian villages another
paign planned, and the command given to Coils Viii
hanson and Crawford These officers with their men, pene
traed the Indian country to the wds Of Sandusky, where
they and utterly defeated by Indian force
posed of warriors Of " the Six Nations "-Shawanees Dea
wares, Mngoes &c. Well do remember when the dreadful
of this defeat reached the neghborhood where then
resided, Washington, in Pennsylvania And illus
the effect let mention that three widows, all resid
ing within miles of where then was, and thirteen
children lost their protectors this may afford evidence Of
spread desolation. 1t fearful hour Of tears, dis
traction, and momentary despair but followed by feeling Of
undyins vengeance. Few families but had to rea-
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fat of ruin the Indians One Of the commanders Col
Crawford and his and sonn-law, taken prisoners
and tortured 10 death by being slowly burnt.
This brief view may give your readers idea of those
days of hardship and Danger but than idea,
though the such be erased from the
yet living human being who the when the
occurred Bn Of all who shared the dangers and
Of the me there another who had
delore the calamies Of the day David William
This went to save, and my conviction did all
his power save the Moravsn and yet had bear the
nsueabs load of caumny for their fate and its consequences
through bis remaining days. and its consequences survived
| as a legacy to his family and connexions
Since wiring the preceding. very remarkable production
in the form of novel, under the title of Wacous,a, have
read with great nterest-the drawn from the de-
sructve war Of 763 between the whites and Indians the
Canadian Lake. British border. Though based real his
tory the general Of the work exaggerated Of the
exravsgant If not impossb but in delneation Of
savage Indian character its value is nesmabe. Many may
deem when they find that Wacousta white renegade,
that such ferocy aad depraviy in born and raised
manhood The social atmosphere of civilization and chris
any altogether undeserving of belief Let the reader
pause when state that the two Grys similar in regard
character, and not whit behind Wacousta in fendsh
malice, white renegsdes, and present and par
ticpa,ng with the savages when Col Crawford and his
chdn put death by the slow of fire.
heard several pesons who had been prisoners amongst
Indians that far the brutal and blood
thirsty savages renegade whites.
Those days Of blood and gone into the bosom
eternity in the Ohio regon but the is still raging
the far West, and its echoes reach from time time. II
is recedng towards the Pacific ocean, and in the remaining
years of this century may hope will waste away the
surface of the great deep. WILLIAM DARBY.
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