[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] tendency; that forts should be built for the security of.each nation; that vessels of war should be placed on the lakes, and that any further advances of the French should be prevented. The latter only was approved; the union of the colonies failed. Regarding the transfer of powers to a confederate organization as too much of an encroachment upon the liberties of the people, the colonial assemblies refused their assent, while the parent 1 Known as the Susquehanna company. 2 Life and Times of Sir Wm. Johnson, It was organized in 1753. i, 468, etc. 216 THE INDIAN TRIBES government rejected the plan on the ground that it favored the democratic at the expense of the aristocratic element. The echo of Washington's guns on the Ohio meadows was speedily wafted to Canada, and scarcely had the last commis sioner departed from Albany before the forests became alive with savage hordes let loose by the French upon the settlements. On the 28th of August, the St. Francis Indians fell upon Schaticook and Hoosic; killed several persons, destroyed houses, barns and cattle, and swept off, either as prisoners or willing attendants, the remnant of Pennacooks residing there.1 Bakers-