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12017-01-14T11:38:52-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72001(annotation)plain2017-01-14T11:38:52-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650ation, to have been the most cautious of doing any Act which might prevent such a Peace. On the contrary, their Friendship might be of very great Benefit to us. The Skins and Furrs are great Weights in the Ballance of Trade between Great-Britain and us; Exchange is thereby lowered, and consequently the Prices of Goods which we import.
Another apparent Bad Consequence is, unless the Indians have more Humanity than some of us, who profess, to have received the Light of the Gospel, and to be Followers of the Prince of Peace. We cannot expect but that the Prisoners, of our own Blood, who are now amongst them, will share the same Fate with the unhappy Wretches in Lancaster Goal.
This Province has been a Land of Liberty; and Justice has hitherto been effectually administred, without Assistance of a Military Force. It has also been an Asylum for People of tender Consciences, who removed hither for the Liberty of worshipping the Supreme Being in the Manner they believed most agreeable to Him. These inestimable Priveleges induced our Ancestors to leave their Native Land, to encounter the Dangers of the Deep, and settle in this Howling Wilderness; which is now become a fertile Field, a Land of Plenty. But alas! is it likely we shall long enjoy these Priveleges? Can you imagine that Great Britain will suffer the Administrations of Justice in so valuable a Province as Pennsylvania to be interrupted, the Goals broke open, the Civil Officers insulted, Trade rendered precarious, and every Thing put into Confusion, by a Mob? -----No certainly. Insurrections which had but small Beginnings have often arose to great Heights; Because, when once a Mob have broke through the Limits prescribed by the Laws, ’tis uncertain, how far they will wander in the Fields of Anarchy and Confusion; and what Extravagancies they will run into which at first they did not Design. If these People should take it into their Heads, not to pay Taxes, or not to pay the Proprietaries for their Lands, or the Merchants for their Goods; what
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12016-08-19T13:01:43-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA Serious Address (Second Edition) - 71A Serious address, to such of the inhabitants of Pennsylvania, as have connived at, or do approve of, the late massacre of the Indians at Lancaster, or the design of killing those who are now in the barracks at Philadelphia. : Re-printed from the first edition (printed by Mr. Armbluster [sic]) and diligently compared and revised with the same.2016-08-19T13:01:43-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
