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An Answer to the Pamphlet Entitled "The Conduct of the Paxton Men" - 8

prehensive, that any quantity might be too much, therefore forbid the use of it intirely. Well but they were privately entertained at a Tavern in the Town: I ask with what? Here this writer is Silent. Now if he would but comply with one word, in the front of his Letter (Truth) and tell us it was no other then with the Necessaries of Life, he would then give the Peoples Actions a genuine Connection with the Governor’s Proclimation; for the said Deponent doth not Charge the Quakers or any one of them, with the least Misconduct; neither is there one word of Spiritious Liquors in the whole Affadavit, nor the Name Quaker mentioned: And as to the rest of the Affidavit, I think they are not worth a solled Man’s notice. I think they were all trumpt up, since the Indians were Murdered, to gloss over that horred act. Was the like ever known before? For a set of Men, in Conspiracy together, to fall upon and Murder a number of their Neighbours, and then ransack the Earth, to find Evidence to prove that they were dangerous Neighbours; and that they had received but their deserts. This is a very odd Affair, first to kill a Man, then to pass Sentence on him, and after all that to produce the Evidence against him: Surely those People, that were in danger of the Indians, must be very careful to keep the Magistrates in Ignorance of their Dangers; or the Magistrates had but little regard to their Neighbour’s safety: For it seems this Writer has traced Time back to Noah’s Flood; nay quite as far as Governour Keith’s Administration to produce Evidence against dead Indians. Page the 8th. here is another Paragraft, that plainly discovers their Design of overturning the 

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