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An Historical Account of the Late Disturbance - 7

need of, and when the Rendezvous is over, and the Indians have well Eaten and Drank, they return to their own Country, killing whether Man or Beast they meet in their Way, this is the Retaliation the Government who must pay all Sums thus expended get in return, some may say it’s a necessary Scourge for our Evil; others that it is not a Welcome One, and full of Ingratitude and Deceit.

MAY the God of all Nature direct us as Christians to Humility, walk humbly before him, and to love our Neigbours as ourselves, and then undoubtedly will cease all this Tumultuous Factions: He will say to the Fomenting Sea, whose Winds are Outrageous, be thou still as the fine gliding Brook, whose purling Streams are harmonious to the Hearers Ears, is the earnest Prayer of your true and affectionate Lover of King and Country.

P.S. It would be well in this Critical juncture of Things, as the White People most in General, hates any Thing that Savours of the Name of an Indian; that they were remov’d to their own Country and there set down in the most Peaceable terms

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Signed on p. 8: From a true countryman. A subsequent impression (Evans 9697, Hildeburn 2003) has imprint: "Printed by Anthony Armbruster, in Moravian-Alley." That impression notes on the title page: "[Fist] The second edition, may be called a piracy. I said printed at Rome: I meant nothing but [cross] Printed in Second-Street, by Andrew Steuars-Stockfish." A.S. and Andrew Steuars-Stockfish evidently refer to Andrew Steuart, who also printed an edition of the work (not in Evans or Bristol).