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An Answer to the Pamphlet Entitled "The Conduct of the Paxton Men" - 11
12016-12-04T13:38:16-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72001(annotation)plain2016-12-04T13:38:16-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650ament; and every Loyal Person, a real Member of that Society. Thus we are bound together by Unaminity and Concord, under the Sanction of Laws, to support our civil and Religious Rights in Government: And we are not to be disturbed in this happy Situation, but by a failure in one, or more of the Members; and this appears in every Person, that acts contrary to the system of Laws, by which this body Corporate is formed into a Society. The Word, factious, declares for me, that those People, whom this Writer so much extoles, are the very Men, whom he so horridly exclaims against. See the word (factious) i.e. Quarrelsome, Riotous, Rebellious, disatisfied with the publick Establishment; here it wants of Policy with a Witness to it: But I have so much Charity for the Letter Writer, as to think, if he has at any Time met with some of these, sholastick Words, that he has made use of, in his common News-paper, the printer has been so ungenerous, as not to give him the Meaning of one half of them. Let the Blame lye there. Well but is this agreeable to his Title Page? Impartially represented? I think its the nearest that of any Branch of his Discourse I have met with; he has been exclaiming against the Government; he has been exclaiming against the Quakers; and now he exclaims against the Presbyterians.
There is no one thing that appears clearer, then that the Quakers are blam’d without a Cause. Is the Governor a Quaker? Is his Council Quakers? Is the Majority of the Assembly Quakers? I answer in the negative. Well, they are the Men, that all Acts of State are determined by; then pray what are
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12016-08-19T12:59:09-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aAn Answer to the Pamphlet Entitled "The Conduct of the Paxton Men" - 112An answer to the pamphlet entituled The conduct of the Paxton men, impartially represented: : wherein the ungenerous spirit of the author is manifested, &c. And the spotted garment pluckt off.plain2016-12-03T16:33:05-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
