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 Brethren,) indignantly rejected the terms, and resolved to hazard the execution of the menace. For this the Horrors of European Warfare afforded not a sufficient Punishment. Inventive in cruelty and undistinguishing in massacre, Savages must be hired against them: human Tygers must be called from their woods, their attacks regulated by Discipline, and their Ferocity increased by Intoxication. But did not this employment of merciless Scalpers rouse the indignation of Britons? Did not they avert public Ignominy by public Vengeance? The Hand, that subscribed these hellish orders, should have been withered; the Voice, that proposed them, should have been echoed only by the arches of a Dungeon! Alas! the Nation slept—and the Sleep of Nations is followed by their Slavery. But perhaps this foul Iniquity was preserved among the secrets of the Cabinet?—No! the fact was publicly known: the Sun of Enquiry shone full and fierce upon it, and the Blood of the Innocent was steaming up to Heaven! Yet during the whole war the Savages were regularly employed—and the Ministry, who authorized it, were not even removed. Such were our hideous excesses daring that holy Rebellion:—yet who among the Americans considered them as