ce of Colonel Zane, proceeded to Grave
Creek and buried those who had fallen.[12]

At the time of the happening of those occurrences the belief was
general, that the army which had been led to Wheeling by Girty, had
been ordered on, for the purpose of conducting the tories from the
settlements to Detroit; and that detachments from that army continued
to hover about the frontiers for some time, to effect that object.
There was then, unfortunately for the repose and tranquility of many
neighborhoods, a considerable number of those misguided and deluded
wretches, who, disaffected to the cause of the colonies, were willing
to advance the interest of Britain, by the sacrifice of every social
relation, and the abandonment of every consideration, save that of
loyalty to the king. So far did their opposition, to those who
espoused the cause of American liberty, blunt every finer and more
noble feeling, that many of them were willing to imbrue their hands in
the blood of their neighbors, in the most sly and secret manner, and
in the hour of midnight darkness, for no offence but attachment to the
independence of the colonies. A conspiracy for the murder of the whigs
and for accepting the terms, offered by the Governor of Canada to
those who would renounce their allegiance to the United States and
repair to Detroit, by the relenting of one individual, was prevented
being carried into effect; and many were consequently saved from
horrors, equalling, if not transcending in enormity, the outrages of
the savages themselves. Scenes of licentiousness and fury, followed
upon the discovery of the plot.--Exasperated at its heinousness, and
under the influence of resentful feelings, the whigs retaliated upon
the tories, some of the evils which these had conspired to inflict
upon them. In the then infuriated state of their minds, and the little
restraint at that time imposed on the passions by the operation of the
laws, it is really matter of admiration that they did not proceed
farther, and requite upon those deluded wretches, the full measure of
their premeditated wrongs. The head only of this fiendish league, lost
his life; but many depredations were committed, on the property of its
members.

A court, for the trial of the conspirants, was held at Redstone Fort;
and many of them were arraigned at its bar. But as their object had
been defeated by its discovery, and as no farther danger was
apprehended from them, they were released, after