When I considered this a little, it followed necessarily that I was certainly in the wrong; that these people were not murderers, in the sense that I had before condemned them in my thoughts, any more than those Christians were murderers who often put to death the prisoners taken in battle; or more frequently, upon many occasions, put whole troops of men to the sword, without giving quarter, though they threw down their arms and submitted.
Amikor jobban belegondoltam, rájöttem, hogy ezek az emberek semmivel sem vétkesebbek, mint mondjuk azok a keresztény gyilkosok, akik gyakran kivégzik a csatában ejtett hadifoglyokat. A következő ellenérvem a megtámadásukkal kapcsolatban az volt, hogy bármilyen kegyetlenek is egymással szemben, nekem még sosem ártottak.