The borderers at first felt about it as the English Whigs originally felt about the massacre of Glencoe.

For some time the true circumstances of the affair were not widely known among them.

They were hot with wrath against all the red-skinned race; and they rejoiced to hear of the death of a number of treacherous Indians who pretended to be peaceful, while harboring and giving aid and comfort to, and occasionally letting their own young men join, bands of avowed murderers.

Of course, the large wicked and disorderly element was loud in praise of the deed.

The decent people, by their silence, acquiesced.
A terrible day of reckoning was at hand; the retribution fell on but part of the real criminals, and bore most heavily on those who were innocent of any actual complicity in the deed of evil.