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An Answer to the Pamphlet Entitled "The Conduct of the Paxton Men" - 24

Then draws a Line, makes it an entire Paragraph of itself, throws off all his covering; and tells us in plain Terms that “indeed such an Action could never have been censured in the World, if their had not lived in all Ages; abject Flatterers and servile Creatures of power, always prepared to sanctify and abet the most enormous wickedness, if it were gainful, and they are they, who have often missed good Men in the worst Prejudices.” Here I have given the entire Paragraph; now I propose to give the definition, ergo: Indeed such an Action could never have been censured in the World, i.e. killing the Indians at Lancaster, coming down to Philadelphia with the like Design, ergo: If they had not been in all Ages abject Flatterers, and servile Creatures of Power; the Governor, Commissioners and Assembly, it can be well else: They are always prepared to Sanctifie and abet the most enormous wickedness, if it were gainful, there are those who have often led good Men in the worst Prejudices, i.e. The Actions of Philadelphia, who at the Governors request, saved the Lives of the Indians in the Barraks; and this Letter writer and his Brethren are the Men that are Prejudiced against them for it; the Reader may see that I have not strain’d this Paragraph in the least, but have given the genuine Character and Sentiments of the Author, which is that he was the Instigator of all the Mischef; or that he is the Abettor and doth approve of all their Conduct, nay, we have his own Qualification for what I assert in the following Words, viz. (As any Man ought to have) and his whole Writing make a Chain of Circumstances, which being linkt together at the Ends, makes a Lawful Evidence,

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