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A Dialogue, Containing Some Reflections on the Late "Declaration and Remonstrance" - 8
12017-01-14T12:06:47-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72001(annotation)plain2017-01-14T12:06:47-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650ato a too late Repentance? But as I can only touch upon Things, I shall conclude this Head with telling you, that if such an Affair had happen’d in England, it would have brought your Leaders to the common Gallows, or to have had the Honour of a new one erected on Purpose for them; and your poor deluded Followers, to Transportation for Life,—Now, Gentlemen, I will for Brevity’s Sake, omit taking Notice of those ridiculous uncertain Stories of a certain injured Society in this City, as they appear to be without any Proof, Weight or Signification.----If even they could be proved, this could be no Excuse for Rebellion, Sedition and Murder, putting a whole City in a Panic and the Country in an Uproar and Surprize.-------But what can you possibly mean by your notable Harangue, in Page 9? And can it be thought strange (say you) that a Scene of such Treatment at this Time, and now adding at this critical Juncture to all our former Distresses, the disagreeable Burden of supporting in the very Heart of the Province, at so great an Expence, between one and two Hundred Savages, to the great Disquietude of the Majority of the good Inhabitants of this Province, &. And must not (say you) all well-disposed People entertain a charitable Sentiment of those, who, at their own great Expence and Trouble, have' attempted, or shall yet attempt, to rescue a labouring Land from a Weight so oppressive, unreasonable and unjust? It is this we design, it is this we are resolved to prosecute; tho’it is with great Reluctance, we are obliged to adapt a Measure not so agreeable as could be desired and to which Extremity alone compels.----Pray, Gentlemen, what do you mean by supporting at a great Expence, between one and two Hundred Savages, to your great Disquietude, &.? Posit. We mean, Sir, those Savages in the Barracks. Lovell. Alas, Sir! how strangely mistaken are you, as well as many Hundreds more, whom I’ve heard express themselves in this random Way; either not knowing, or not distinguishing, between Savage Indians, Heathen Indians, and Christian Indians.----- Now, Gentlemen, through the tender Mercy of their and
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12016-08-19T13:00:28-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA Dialogue, Containing Some Reflections on the Late "Declaration and Remonstrance" - 81A Dialogue, containing some reflections on the late declaration and remonstrance, of the back-inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania. With a serious and short address, to those Presbyterians, who (to their dishonor) have too much abetted, and conniv'd at the late insurrection. By a member of that community. [Four lines from Thomson]2016-08-19T13:00:28-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
