rebels raised their hatchets to fight their good master, you sharpened
your knife, you brightened your rifle and led on our foes to the fields of
our fathers'--You have merited death and shall die by our hands! When
those rebels had drove us from the fields of our fathers to seek out new
homes, it was you who could dare to step forth as their pilot, and conduct
them even to the doors of our wigwams, to butcher our children and put us
to death! No crime can be greater!--But though you have merited death and
shall die on this spot, my hands shall not be stained in the blood of a
brother! _Who will strike_?"

Little Beard, who was standing by, as soon as the speech was ended, struck
the prisoner on the head with his tomahawk, and despatched him at once!

Little Beard then informed the other Indian prisoner that as they were at
war with the whites only, and not with the Indians, they would spare his
life, and after a while give him his liberty in an honorable manner. The
Oneida warrior, however, was jealous of Little Beard's fidelity; and
suspecting that he should soon fall by his hands, watched for a favorable
opportunity to make his escape; which he soon effected. Two Indians were
leading him, one on each side, when he made a violent effort, threw them
upon the ground, and run for his life towards where the main body of the
American army was encamped. The Indians pursued him without success; but
in their absence they fell in with a small detachment of Sullivan's men,
with whom they had a short but severe skirmish, in which they killed a
number of the enemy, took Capt. or Lieut. William Boyd and one private,
prisoners, and brought them to Little Beard's Town, where they were soon
after put to death in the most shocking and cruel manner. Little Beard, in
this, as in all other scenes of cruelty that happened at his town, was
master of ceremonies, and principal actor. Poor Boyd was stripped of his
clothing, and then tied to a sapling, where the Indians menaced his life