The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . nd only blackened logs, ashes, and the remains of the dead. German and Huguenot settlers had been swept away. The Indianshad planned a general attack ; bands were sent out in all directions,every village was surrounded, and the lighting of some house or barngave the signal of attack. Then the furious red man, full of one idea—that he must exterminate the whites, or be driven from the lands ofhis fathers,—rushed upon the unsuspecting whites. Night was madehideous with the scenes of slaughter, as t
The story of a great nationOr, Our country's achievements, military, naval, political, and civil . nd only blackened logs, ashes, and the remains of the dead. German and Huguenot settlers had been swept away. The Indianshad planned a general attack ; bands were sent out in all directions,every village was surrounded, and the lighting of some house or barngave the signal of attack. Then the furious red man, full of one idea—that he must exterminate the whites, or be driven from the lands ofhis fathers,—rushed upon the unsuspecting whites. Night was madehideous with the scenes of slaughter, as the braves, with a pine-torchin one hand, and a tomahawk in the other, pursued the flying settlers,cutting them down without mercy, tracking them into the woods andwherever they sought refuge. For three days the massacre continuedalong Albemarle Sound, till the savages stopped from sheer exhaustionin their bloody work. North Carolina, in alarm, called on the neighboring colonies. Spots-wood, of Virginia, tried to aid them by securing the fidelity of part of 306 THE STOIIY OF A GREAT NATION;. LONG SAULT KAPIDS ON THE OTTAWA, SCENE OF MANY INDIAN FIGHTS. the Tuscaroras, who luid not taken part in the massaere, Imt tlieVirghiia Assembly began to (luan-el with the* Governor, and nothhigwas done. GalUint South CaroUna was prompt at the call of humanity. Shehad managed her Indians better, and Barnwell, calling out the militia,rallied around him friendly Indians whom their wise policy hadsecured. Cherokees and Creeks, Catawbas and Yaraassees, marchedwifh Barnwell on that long expedition through the unbroken they approached the scene of war, the Indian scouts brought wordthat the Tuscaroras were intrenched in a rude fort on the Neuse. Onthe map you can almost mark it in the u]i]ier ])art of Craven there were no cravens on either side. Althoudi a few North OR, OIJK COUNTEys ACHIEVEMENTS. 307 Carolina militia joined Barnwell, he could not storm the Indian forThe T
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