A Dialogue, Containing Some Reflections on the Late "Declaration and Remonstrance" - 11
Posit. Dangerous! How?
Lovell. Why dangerous to the Commonwealth; and if not nipt in the Bud, God only knows where such unwarrantable Practices may end.
Zeal. Why pray what Harm did we do in coming down to Philadelphia? We neither killed nor hurt any Body; and every one that saw us, must say we were very civil.
Lovell. Aye, aye, you were so, and so are common Highwaymen, if you do not resist them; there are some of those Gentlemen, who when they stop a Coach, and make their Demands- Gentlemen and Ladies, pray don’t be frightened, we won’t hurt you, only give us our Demand —your purse Madam---If you please, that Gold Watch Sir----Oh pray don’t be angry with us, who are honest Gentlemen, and Men of Honour, and love our King and Country; but Necessity, Necessity obliges us to do this, therefore you must excuse us.----Gentlemen, your most humble Servant----GOD SAVE THE KING.---- Rides off.
Zeal. I think Sir, you bear a little too hard upon us here.
Lovell. No, Sir; Tumult, Sedition and Rebellion, [and more so when they are attended with cruel Murders] are more inexcusable than the Wretches I allude to, who have sometimes a better Right to plead Necessity, than many of the Abettors of our lawless Frontier Inhabitants.
Zeal. But, dear Sir, I am credibly inform’d that there are Gentlemen of Learning and Judgment, who say our Book is a well wrote Thing; particularly—— ——, and a few more very knowing and topping Men.
Lovell. Oh yes. Sir; I know who you mean: But are not these Party-men; warm Bigots, attach’d only to them of their own Community? which Community is well known to be an aspiring People, who, when
