And kindly send them to a world of pain,
Is vile, unjust, absurd:—as if our God
One single thought on Indians e’er bestow’d,
To them his care extends, or even knew,
Before Columbus told him where they grew.”[306]
On another occasion when Brackenridge was a candidate for Congress, he published in the Aurora an appeal to the electors of his Congressional District in which he animadverted harshly on the educational accomplishments of General John Woods, his Federalist opponent. This presented another opportunity for the clever writers of The Echo to burlesque a leading Republican. The Echo gibed:
“But, to return to Woods,—to speak my mind,
His education was of narrow kind;
Nor has he since to learning much applied,
But smil’d with calm contempt on pedant pride.