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driven back, the resort was had to the
basest treachery and deception to effect
their destruction. Under a white flag,
--a flag of truce--the prisoner at the
bar, approached the emigrants and having
there met a delegation from them, the
fears of the emigrants by some means,
were allayed and they gave up their
arms, putting them into wagons from
the attacking party, and then being
unarmed, they put themselves under
the protection of the white men
which the prisoner, Lee, was one.

You have heard the sickening details
of the bloody and fiendish work which
followed. Indians and white men
vied with each other in their efforts at
wholesale murdering of over one hundred
and twenty human beings, men, women
and children, who had been disarmed
and lured from their stronghold
behind their wagons. You have heard
the part which the prisoner played in
this dread tragedy: how, it was said he
shot one person with his gun, how
he shot others with his pistol and cut the
throat of another and told an Indian
not to spare a woman's life, whom the