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A Narrative of the Late Massacres – 28

Country, and your GOD, that you have broken; the infamous Death that hangs over your Heads: —For JUSTICE, though slow, will come at last. —All good People every where detest your Actions.—You have imbrued your Hands in innocent Blood; how will you make them clean? — The dying Shrieks and Groans of the Murdered, will often sound in your Ears: Their Spectres will sometimes attend you, and affright even your innocent Children! — Fly where you will, your Consciences will go with you:—Talking in your Sleep shall betray you, in the Delirium of a Fever you yourselves shall make your own Wickedness known.
 
One Hundred and Forty peaceable Indians yet remain in the Government. They have, by Christian Missionaries, been brought over to a Liking, at least, of our Religion; some of them lately left their Nation which is now at War with us; because they did not chuse to join with them in their Depredations; and to shew their Confidence in us, and to give us an equal Confidence in them, they have brought and put into our Hands their Wives and Children. Others have lived long among us in Northampton County, and most of their Children have been born there. These are all now trembling for their Lives. They have been hurried from Place to Place for Safety, now concealed in Corners, then sent out of the Province, refused a Passage through a neighbouring Colony, and returned, not unkindly perhaps, but disgracefully, on our Hands. O Pennsylvania! once renowned for Kindness to

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