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Remarks on the Quaker Unmasked - 3

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Ignorance, or that uncommon Audacity, that the Lenity of a Government to ungrateful Monsters is too often productive of.

It hath been observed by the Proprietors of Negroes, that there is something so peculiar in their Disposition, that they cannot bear Indulgence; these People I look upon to be under the same unhappy Circumstances, not that I would suppose it so in their original Dispositions, but owing to the Effect their Principles have, for they are, and have always been (tho' under the mildest of Governments) a Sett of uneasy, discontented, and innovating People.

But Philadelphia boasts of better Men than they; Men, who when Occasion calls, are ready to take up Arms in Opposition to the Enemies of her Welfare. Yet some of these "are called Incendiaries, who are not only enraged themselves, at their dear Friends the Indians, being slain, but would have all the World of their Temper." Now, what Interest can the saving the Lives of the Indians be to the Q—rs, or what Disadvantage can accrue to them from their Death, I can't conceive, neither hath our Author (after several low and impertinent Insinuations) be able to determine.

Those that did take up Arms, I am fully convinced, had no other View in it, than the Welfare of the City, and Persons acting by

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  1. Remarks on the Quaker Unmasked - 3