25 ’ appeals of Zeisberger. But Schoenbrunn had been demolished and burned by the hostile warriors, and when the faithful missionary led his converts back in 1779. it was necessary to build a new town on the west side of the river. The reader probably has noticed that these events were transpirng during the time of the Revolutionary War. This conspiracy, trifling as it may have been in results, was but part of a more extensive one to subdue the colonies in their struggle for independence. It was computed that ten thousand hostile warriors could be mustered at this time, and to turn them loose upon the defenseless outposts of the colonies it was only necessary to break up the missions, which acted as a kind of breakwater to divide the Indian waves that otherwise would have swept over the states when the colonists would have been least able to repel them. Be it remembered that Zeis- berger's moral courage in that crisis saved the colonies from the deluge of savage warfare and that perhaps he thereby saved the Union. Schoenbrunn, Gnadenhutten and Salem Captured by the British.—The British at Detrort
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