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A Humble Attempt at Scurrility - 14

HIS Narrative—Is that too to be thrown in his Teeth! And can Pr—ry Partisans mention the Word NARRATIVE without Confusion! Does that contain the minutest Reflection on any but those who have fix’d an indelible Stain on their Country, their Religion, on Humanity itself?—the horrid Murderers of innocent Men, Women, and Babes, who were at the very Time under their Protection! Was it not expressly wrote to spirit up the People to defend the G—r, who was insulted and threatened, and to strengthen the Powers of Government which were despised and trampled upon? Was it not highly approved of by the G—r, Mr. H—n, the At—y Gen—I, Mr. Pe—rs, and every Pr—ry Minion in the Province? Did not even the haughty Pr—r himself deign to praise it, and commend Mr. F—n’s Conduct on the Occasion to his Friends in England? Nay, did not the rancorous great Gyant for once check the Overflowing of his Gall, and vent a Grunt of Approbation? Did not his Letters from England greatly condemn the Conduct of the Rioters and their Abettors? And, after he return’d, did he not daily bellow out in the Coffee-House the Necessity there was, for the Honour of the Province, to bring those Murderers to Justice, till it was hinted to him that he had best be silent or he would endanger his Election? Did not the G—r in a manner throw himself upon Mr. F—n and his Friends for Protection; and did not they extricate him from all his Difficulties—even at the Risque of their Lives? Did not the G—r acknowledge himself under great Obligations to them on this Account? But — O shameful! —Was there not within two Days after a Union formed with those very Murderers, and their Abettors, against the very Persons who had shown themselves His H—r’s Friends in the Time of Danger? And, lastly, was not this very extraordinary Conduct, and the afterwards insisting on the best of the Pr—ry’s Land being tax’d no higher than the worst of the People’s, the principal Causes of a Majority of the Freeholders, and their Representatives, determining on a

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