An Address to the Rev. Dr. Alison - 6
BUT when I consider the Falsehoods you, and your Adherents, have had the Hardiness to publish, with this Intent, even upon the Spot where they might be easily detected, I the less admire at your Wickedness in publishing your venomous Slanders in England, where they might chance not to fall in the Hands of those who were able to refute them. In some of your inflammatory Publications you did not scruple to assert, that the Assembly had employed the Publick Money in hiring the Indians to destroy the back Inhabitants. But tho' the Author of the Preface to Mr. Galloway's Speech, soon after tax'd you with downright Lying on the Occasion, you have never thought fit to deny the Charge, nor indeed will you ever be able to wipe off the Infamy with which you have thereby covered yourselves. I must beg Leave, however, to repeat some of that Author's Words, as I think them very expressive of your Conduct. "Are there not, says he, Pamphlets continually written and daily sold in our Streets to justify and encourage a Spirit of Riot and Violence? —Are not the mad armed Mob in those Writings instigated to imbrue their Hands in the Blood of their Fellow Citizens;—by first applauding their Murder of the Indians, and then representing the Assembly and their Friends as worse than Indians, as having privately stirr'd up the Indians to murder the white People, and arm'd and rewarded them for that Purpose?—LIES, Gentlemen, villainous as ever the Malice of Hell invented; and which to do you Justice, not one of you believes,—tho' you would have the Mob believe them."
To proceed,—In hopes that some of your slanderous Slime might stick, you wickedly assert, That "when a Peace was concluded, they (the Quakers) wiped away the Blood shed by the Indians without obliging them to return our Captives;" confessing at the same Time that
