It is a fact, honorable and worthy of mention, that the Kentuckians were never implicated in this or any similar massacre.
[Footnote: The Germans of up-country North Carolina were guilty of as brutal massacres as the Scotch-Irish backwoodsmen of Pennsylvania.

See Adair, 245.

There are two or three individual instances of the barbarity of Kentuckians--one being to the credit of McGarry,--but they are singularly few, when the length and the dreadful nature of their Indian wars are taken into account.

Throughout their history the Kentucky pioneers had the right on their side in their dealings with the Indians.
They were not wanton aggressors; they entered upon vacant hunting-grounds, to which no tribe had a clear title, and to which most even of the doubtful titles had been fairly extinguished.

They fought their foes fiercely, with varying fortune, and eventually wrested the land from them; but they very rarely wronged them; and for the numerous deeds of fearful cruelty that were done on Kentucky soil, the Indians were in almost every case to blame.] But at the time, and in their own neighborhood--the corner of the Upper Ohio valley where Pennsylvania and Virginia touch,--the conduct of the murderers of the Moravians roused no condemnation.