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12018-01-15T06:11:04-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72001(annotation)plain2018-01-15T06:11:04-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650awill be pleased to return his Excellency their Thanks, for this generous and seasonable Act of Goodness." And how indecent and foolish is it then in a few Clergymen, to undertake to censure the Conduct of a whole Government, and of his Majesty's General, only because it did not quadrate with their wicked and rebellious Sentiments, destructive of all Humanity, Allegiance and Order?
BUT as you have repeatedly endeavoured to have it thought, that none but Quakers or their Friends, have painted the Actions of the Paxton Rioters in a horrid Light, I shall therefore give you an Extract of another Message from the Governor, in which he expresses his Sentiments very strongly with Regard to those People. "I am sorry to inform you, says he, that the same Spirit and frantic Rage, which actuated those who lately put to Death the Indians in Lancaster County, still prevails among them; and that instead of having any Remorse for, or in the least dreading the bad Consequences of their Conduct, I have just Reason to believe they are daily strengthning their Party, and adding greatly to their Numbers, and threaten to come down armed in a Body, and repeat the same Acts of Cruelty on the Indians in the Barracks, in the Northern Liberties of this City, determined to spare none who oppose their wicked Designs. They have already given abundant Proof, that neither Religion, Humanity or Laws, are Objects of their Consideration, or of sufficient Weight to restrain them.
I THINK, Reverend Sirs, you will hardly say that these Sentiments were dictated by a Quaker Faction; for among all the Faults you may find with this Gentleman's Administration, you cannot surely charge him with any Partiality to Quakers, whatever you may do to others. 'Tis however more than probable, that his H—r's Language is since altered with respect to those Murderers, but it is impossible that his Sentiments should. Whence this Alteration arose is in your Power to unfold, and you may
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12016-08-19T12:58:58-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aAn Address to the Rev. Dr. Alison - 431An address to the Rev. Dr. Alison, the Rev. Mr. Ewing, and others, trustees of the Corporation for the Relief of Presbyterian Ministers, their Widows and Children : being a vindication of the Quakers from the aspersions of the said trustees in their letter published in th London chronicle, no. 1223. To which is prefixed, the said letter. By a lover of truth. [One line in Latin].2016-08-19T12:58:59-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
