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A Serious Address (First Edition) - 7

put themselves under the Protection of the Magistrates, and were lodged in the Work-House; which is Part of the Publick Goal [sic] in Lancaster. But this was in vain. For a Party of fifty Men came to the Goal [sic] in broad Day-light; broke it open, and barbarously murdered those Indians, not sparing a Woman Seventy-seven Years of Age, nor a Child sucking it’s Mother’s Breast. Now I appeal to every Man, who will give himself Leave to consider, if such an Act be not contrary to the Laws both divine and human, which I mentioned before.

BUT the immediate apparent Consequences of this tumultuous Knot, and atrocicious [sic] Murder, is an additional Proof of the Infatuation of these People and their Abetors.

IT appears, from the publick Papers, that Negotiations for a general Peace with the Indians were in great Forwardness, which these unlucky Affairs must greatly retard, if not altogether prevent. For, how can Indians, who have been at War with us, confide in the Promises of the Government, when they find that Govern-

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