340  A    HISTORY    OF    BETHLEHEM,    PENNSYLVANIA.
in  more  distant  regions  continued  to  come  in.  New  excitement  was
occasioned  by  the  Governor's  "declaration  of  war  against  the  Dela-
wares,"  April  14,  1756,  and  the  proclamation  of  bomity  for  Indians
killed  or  captured — the  "scalp  money"  he  was  constrained  to  offer
at  the  instance  of  the  Commissioners,  under  strong  pressure  from
certain  frontier  settlers  who  proposed  to  have,  at  least,  the  grim
satisfaction  of  turning  the  hazardous  employment  of  hunting  Indians,
like  that  of  hunting  beasts  of  prey,  to  pecuniary  account.  Here  was
a  new  temptation  to  men  in  whose  eyes  one  Indian  was  the  same
as  another,  to  again  turn  sinister  attention  to  the  inoffensive  Indians
at  Bethlehem.
