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Quakers in the Crosshairs: The Early Paxton Debate
12017-03-28T17:11:16-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a72004image_header2017-03-29T07:16:38-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aAfter the march on Germantown, Paxton leader Matthew Smith published Declaration and Remonstrance in 1764. Following him, other pamphleteers shaped public opinion, appropriating a variety of symbols from eighteenth-century material culture—especially masks and looking-glasses—and responding to one another anonymously and through pseudonyms.
Paxton leaders and sympathizers appealed to the prejudices against Philadelphia Quakers and fears of frontier violence. Whereas critics challenged the Paxtons on rational, legal, and economic grounds, apologists conjured scenes of frontier violence to telescope the threat of Indian warfare.
Apologists particularly assailed Friends, whom they characterized as opportunistic, or, worse, immoral, in their Indian-dealing. Citing stories of Friends enlisting in the Philadelphia militia during the Paxton march, critics charged that Friends would violate the Peace Testimony, to promote peace and active oppose war, on behalf of Indians, but not their fellow settlers.
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12017-03-18T10:07:52-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA New Looking-Glass for the 1764 Paxton Pamphlet WarWill Fenton25Will Fentonimage_header4033772019-08-04T06:42:18-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
12017-03-29T06:16:54-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aPaxtons and Politics4plain2017-03-29T08:41:07-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
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12016-08-31T12:52:16-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aPeaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton MassacresWill Fenton22Kevin Kennyimage_header2019-08-11T08:12:53-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
12016-08-19T16:54:45-07:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650aA Declaration and RemonstranceWill Fenton2A declaration and remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding frontier inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania, presented by them to the Honourable the governor and Assembly of the province, shewing the causes of their late discontent and uneasiness and the grievances under which they have laboured, and which they humbly pray to have redress'd.gallery2018-02-12T01:11:29-08:00Will Fenton82bf9011a953584cd702d069a30cbdb6ef90650a
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12016-08-19T12:59:13-07:00A Declaration and Remonstrance - Title Page1A declaration and remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding frontier inhabitants of the province of Pennsylvania, presented by them to the Honourable the governor and Assembly of the province, shewing the causes of their late discontent and uneasiness and the grievances under which they have laboured, and which they humbly pray to have redress'd.2016-08-19T12:59:13-07:00
