The warrior and hunter could readily relieve himself from the gnawing necessities of hunger.

He could wander off to remote tribes, and, armed with rifle or bow, could easily secure his game, sufficient for his own wants, from the contiguous forest.

But these were resources inaccessible to the weak, the old, the timid, and the imbecile.

Surely, it was a cruel measure of war, and if necessary to the safety of the whites, renders still more criminal the wanton excesses of the latter, by which it was originally provoked.

It is pleasing to be able to show that Marion felt, in this matter, as became that rare humanity which was one of the most remarkable and lovely traits in his character,--the more remarkable, indeed, as shining out among endowments which, in particular, designated him for a military life--a life which is supposed to need for its stimulus so much that is sanguinary, if not brutal, in one's nature.
It is recorded of him, that the severities practised in this campaign filled him, long after, with recollections of sorrow.