Their only hope in such a conflict as was then raging, was to be removed from their fatally dangerous position; and this the missionaries would not see.

As long at they stayed where they were, it was a mere question of chance and time whether they would be destroyed by the Indians or the whites; for their destruction at the hands of either one party or the other was inevitable.
Their fate was not due to the fact that they were Indians; it resulted from their occupying an absolutely false position.

This is clearly shown by what happened twenty years previously to a small community of non-resistant Christian whites.

They were Dunkards--Quaker-like Germans--who had built a settlement on the Monongahela.

As they helped neither side, both distrusted and hated them.