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It is also asserted in the Narrative, “That the Bodies of the murdered were brought out and exposed in the Street.’---This appears likewise to have been misrepresentation---I have been informed by some of the most reputable Inhabitants of Lancaster, that they were never removed out of the Work-house and Work-house-yard, where they were shot, til they were brought out to be carried to their Graves.
It is also asserted in the Narrative, “That the Bodies of the murdered were brought out and exposed in the Street.’---This appears likewise to have been misrepresentation---I have been informed by some of the most reputable Inhabitants of Lancaster, that they were never removed out of the Work-house and Work-house-yard, where they were shot, til they were brought out to be carried to their Graves.
The next Charge unsher’d in by the Narrative to blacken these unhappy People, is, “That with the Scriptures in their Hands and Mouths, they can set at nought that express Command, Thou shalt do no Murder; and justify their Wickedness by the Command given to Joshua, to destroy the heathen.”---And then follows a dreadful Exclamation in these Words,---”Horrid Perversion of Scripture and of Religion!” I am really amazed that the Philosophie Writer of this Paper should suffer himself to be so much impos’d upon, and influenc’d by the malevolent TITTLE TATTLE of every lying Sycophant. Every Body knows that this Aspersion is the reputed Offspring of the Curled Lock Lawyer, who wrote the Dialogue between Andrew, &c.---A Creature, who by his Debaucheries, and immoral Life, has done more Dishonour to the Scriptures and Religion, than all these Men put together; and who has been endeavouring for a Series of Years to sow the Seeds of Discord and Dissension among his Fellow-Subjects, and has even in print propagated groundless and wicked Insinuations among the Germans, that the English intended to reduce them to a State of Vassalage and Slavery. (o)------Surely the ex parte Relations of this poor drunken Fellow should have been below the Notice of the worthy Author of the Narrative. But it seems this Gentleman was determined to avail himself of any Thing that he thought might bring Infamy and Odium upon the Paxton People; and for this End he has not scrupled to call the killing the Indians MURDER!-----I should be glad
(o) See some Papers published by him in the German language, and dispersed thro Berks County.
