...while the murder of helpless families may be laid to my account here. "The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering...

...Virginia. "The supplicating tears of the women and moving petitions of the men," wrote "Washington, " melt me into such deadly sorrow, that, for the people's...ease, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy." The interior settlements of Pennsylvania were exposed to the same calamities, and...

...the cup of bitterness which he is compelled to drink, and he exclaims: "The supplicating tears of the women, and moving petitions of the men, melt me into such deadly sorrow, that I solemnly declare, if I know my own mind, I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering...