The Enquirer

General Brock and his INDIANS.

Posterity will blush over the conduct of a British General, who has dared to vindicate the use of the Indian tomahawk against a civilized nation.— Gen. Hull denounces extermination, against every white man who is found fighting by the side of an Indian.—Gen. Brock threatens retaliation on the Americans, and a war of utter extermination in every quarter of the globe.

Gen. Hull is justified by common sense in the course which he has traced out. They who give no quarter must expect none. The Law of Nations supports him. When (says Vattel) the war is with a savage nation, who observes no rules, and never gives quarter, the same conduct may be chastised in the persons of any seized or taken, that are among the guilty, that by this rigor they may be brought to conform to the rule, humane.

It is a fact that the "relentless Indian savages" are within this description—their known rule of warfare is the undistinguished destruction of all ages sexes and conditions. Their conduct during the Revolution, is an ample monument of this fact Why speak of towns which they burnt: the melancholy tale of Wyoming, is enough to stamp disgrace on the name of Britain.—I say no more, then read the official letter of John Askin, on the capture of Michilimackinac—he takes great merit to himself in keeping them in order—n" they have not even killed! (says he) a fowl belonging to any person, (a thing never known before) for they generally destroy EVERY THING they meet with.

But why reason on this subject?—we call down the venerable shade of Chatham to confront this abomination. When on the 18th Nov. 1777. Lord Suffolk was daring enough to defend the employment of the Indians in the war. the great Chatham arose in all his majesty—“I am astonished—(exclaimed he,) shocked, to hear such principles confessed; to hear them avowed in this country—principles equally unconstitutional, inhuman and unchristian.—Such horrible notions shock every precept of religion, divine or natural, and every generous feeling of humanity ; and they shock every sentiment of honour; they shock me as a lover of honorable war, and a detester of murderous barbarity.” He then goes on in a strain of the most indignant eloquence against the employment of these "horrible hell-hounds of savage war."

" I call upon the bishops to interpose the unsullied sanctity, of their lawn, upon the learned judges to interpose the purity of their ermine to save us from this pollution Let them perform an inquisition, to purify this house and this country from this sin."