With inconsiderate anger, the Virginians, forgetting the late valuable services of the savages, rose upon their footsteps, slew twelve or fourteen of their warriors, and made prisoners of as many more.

This rash and ill-advised severity aroused the nation.

The young warriors flew to arms, and pouring their active hordes upon the frontier settlements, proceeded to the work of slaughter, without pausing to discriminate between the offending and the innocent.

The emergency was pressing, and Governor Lyttleton, of South Carolina, called out the militia of the province.

They were required to rendezvous at the Congarees, about one hundred and forty miles from Charleston.