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This was the last act of hostility committed by Indians in this region, of which there is any positive proof; and although a Mrs. Alcorn is said to have mysteriously disappeared from the McGuire settlement, there is no proof that she was killed or was abducted by Indians.
Many years ago, the late Thomas Maloney, who lived near Ashville, told me that one time, years before, his father, James Maloney, met at Cresson Springs an Indian dressed in clothes of civilization, who said to him, "Did not you at one time shoot a deer at the `Great Elk Lick,' above the Clearfields on Clearfield Creek?" The answer was in the affirmative. "Well," said the Indian, "when your gun cracked, I had aim on that deer." This Indian, had he been hostile, could have shot Maloney while his gun was empty.
Some time during the forties of the nineteenth century, William Porter owned and operated a water saw-mill on a stream near the present town of Lilly. The site was in a woods with a small clearing on which was a house where he and his family lived. One day while he was in the woods at work, his wife saw two Indians emerge from woods on one side of the clearing; and, of course, she was scared almost to death, but the Indians hastened across the inclosure and disappeared in the woods on the opposite side.
Why the Shawnese and Delaware Indians of Pennsylvania Became Hostile.
People not conversant with the history of the treatment of the Indians of the United States, often wonder why they have often been hostile to the white intruders on the homes of their fathers. The answer is, "They have been hostile because of their inhuman and un-Christian treatment by the whites." Where they have been treated in accordance with the dictates of humanity and the spirit of Christianity, they have become docile, civilized, enlightened and Christianized, as witness the Mission Indians of New Mexico, civilized and Christianized by Spanish Catholic missionaries; many Indians in Canada, converted by French Catholic missionaries; some in the New England States by the Protestant missionary Eliot, and some in Pennsylvania by the Moravian missionaries, under the patent patronage of Count Zinzendorf, the Swedenborgian protector of Zeisberger and others, many of whose converts - baptized Christians and friendly Indians were ruthlessly mur-
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