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An Answer to the Pamphlet Entitled "The Conduct of the Paxton Men" - 20

rative; for it has no ways diminished the valitity of that Work, (but if his Evidence availeth any Thing,) it adds to the Renown of the Author; in that he ranks him with the best of Men for it, those he tries to Redicule; next comes the curl’d Lawyer in page 22. In his Exclamation against the Author of the Narrative, he sayeth, “every body knows that this Assertion is the reputed offspring of the curled Lock Lawyer, who wrote the Dialogue between Andrew, &c.” (observe) a Creature by his Debaucheries and Immoral Life; has done more dishonour to the Scriptures and Religion than all those Men put together; i.e. The Men that murdered the Indians at Lancaster) the sorepart of this Paragraph is an Introduction to the Crimes lay’d to the curl’d Head’s charge; hence is the Crime, “who has been endeavouring for a series of Years, to sow the Seeds of Discord and Detention, among his fellow Subjects: And has even in prints propogated groundless and wicked Insinuations among the Germans.” I expect this Writer has gain’d the displeasure of all that Class of men: By exclaiming against one of their Clan, (and in that he has no policy,) seeing he is just on the brink of ruin. I think he will want half a dozen of them to fetch him out of the scrape; (Remark) here he has absolutely---though I believe unadvicedly passed an irravocable Sentence on himself, for he is the very person that has done this; though handed to us by him under the Similtude of a curl’d Lock Lawyer: I say this Author is the very Man. I submit it to the Judgment of every Man that can think for himself, whether this

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