Indian hating

 I have yet to take notice of a class of people, generally known to us, by the name of " backwoods men," many of whom acting up to a pretended belief, that " an Indian has no more soul than a buffalo ;" and that to kill either, is the same thing; have from time to time, by their conduct, brought great trouble and bloodshed on the country. Such then, I wish to caution, not to sport in that manner with the lives of God's creatures. Have we not every reason to believe on scripture authority, that God bestowed souls on all men without regard to colour or complexion, ? Think ye then, of what you are doing by holding forth such wicked language among yourselves, and before your children, for the purpose of encouraging murder! Believe, that a time will come, when you must account for such vile deeds ! When those who have fallen a sacrifice to your wickedness, will be called forth in judgment against you : nay, when your own descendants will testify against you!—will say: we were taught by our parents to believe this ! —we were told, when we had killed an Indian, that we had done a good act ! —had killed a wild beast, &e.

A Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren Among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians From its Commencement in the Year 1740, to the Close of the Year 1808 by John Heckewelder (pp. x-xi)