liberty in America, in the first in- troduction of intensive agriculture here, its invaluable services in helping to win the French and Indian Wars, when young America was going through her great critical period, its momentous ser- vices in the Revolutionary War, its part in populating sections of the

close of the French and Indian War, by the Treaty of Paris in 1763 (as soon as the question of what part of its cost America should pay, came up) in many quarters of our land the position taken was that, Great Britain had con- cluded "an ignominious" and "humiliating" peace in not compell- ing conquered

massacre, Benjamin Franklin sums up the situation by saying, '"This is another story of the method in which the cowards of the frontier- revenged upon innocent and helpless old men, women and young children, the outrages of Indian warriors, whom they dared not meet." On Wednesday, December 14, 1763, Rev

Frontier." He spoke as follows: With an Historical Society such as is yours, whose members so thoroughly understand the history and traditions of Provincial Pennsylvania, it is no small concern to one invited to address you upon such an occasion to select a subject which could in any degree either hold