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An Address to the Rev. Dr. Alison - ii.

scalped and carried them into Captivity, and would do it again. The War broke out, and in a few Days above 750 Families were driven from their peaceable Habitations, were forced to adandon their Cattle, Crops, and Houshold Furniture, nay many were glad to escape without bringing Bed Cloaths and wearing Apparel with them, and they lived in Wig-wams like the Indians, hardly sheltered from the Inclemency of the Weather. When ready to perish for want of the Necessaries of Life, our Society sent them 150 l. as we wrote you Word; and soon after Collections were made by every Religious Society in this City (the Quakers only excepted) tho' they were earnestly pressed to contribute to their Relief: Even the Roman Catholics, unasked, generously made a Collection for their Relief. You desired to know the Reason why the Quakers were so backward, I really can give none that they have assigned, save this, that they knew other Societies would relieve them, and they would afterwards assist, if there was occasion; but had all taken this cold Method, many of them must have perished; and tho' their Distresses are still great, and tho' it is acknowledged even in our Assembly, that 100,000 l. would not pay their Losses, yet they would do Nothing then, nor now, to help them: Yet, during the last War, they expended 5000 l. in Presents to the Indians, while they were drenching our Frontier Settlements in the Blood of the distressed Inhabitants. We know no Reason for this Conduct, but an envious Temper, because the Frontier Counties, who are of different Denominations, must share the Power with them, that they now abuse; and to prevent this, they have, in forming the new Counties, ordered it so, that but ten Representatives are sent from five Frontier Counties, and twenty-six are sent from the three Interior Counties, under the Quakers Influence. These Frontier Inhabitants complain that they are not fairly represented, or else they had not been such Sufferers; and as the Charter allows every County at least four to represent them, they desire this Charter Privilege; and this occasions, as far as I can judge, all our Quakers Uncharitableness. No Men were ever fonder of Power. The Frontier Inhabitants exposed to daily Incursions of the Indians, formed a Party of Volunteers to go and destroy some Indian Town, near our Borders, on Susquehanna; accordingly 116 Men marched almost to their Towns, and were informed that 50 of those Indians, against whom they had set out, were on their March against the Frontiers. They returned and overtook the Indians, and routed them at the Munsey Hill on Susquehanna. They then proposed to follow their Blow, and applied to Colonel Armstrong, who commanded the Provincial Forces. Two Hundred Volunteers went out with him, and 150 Provincials; but the Indians among us gave Notice to our Enemies, and they escaped; but our People destroyed about 300 Acres of Corn, and burnt their Dwellings, and returned enraged to find that an Indian Town of about twenty or thirty Persons had now informed their Friends, against whom our Men had marched, and

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