One of Williamson's party seized a cooper's mallet, and with it felled fourteen victims, then handed it to another, saying, ‘-My arm fails me; go on in the same way. I think I have done pretty well." Thus upward of ninety human beings were hurried to an untimely grave by those who should have been their legitimate protectors. After committing this atrocious act of barbarity. Williamson's men set fire to the houses containing the dead, and then marched oft. shouting and cursing, in the direction of Schoenbrunn. The news of their awful deed had preceded them to that place. The inhabitants all had fled, and with them for a time the hopes of the missionaries to establish a settlement of Christian Indians on the Tuscarawas. The fruits of ten years of labor in the cause of civilization were apparently lost. This deed of Williamson and his men found very little sympathy with the American people. They looked upon it as an outrage on humanity. The hospitable and friendly character of the Moravians had extended beyond their white brethren on the Ohio. The American Congress felt the influence of public
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