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The Plain Dealer, Numb. I - 16

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How many thousand pounds did it cost us to get the Indians to charge the Proprietor with all our trouble? Even to accuse him with the highest fraud,----of producing false records. But when the matter was enquir’d into, it was plain that the accusations were false, and that you had let the Indians on.

Sir W------M J-------N, in his report on these proceedings, mentions several Quakers who had corresponded with the Indians, and been guilty of several seditious and treasonable practices: Yet you are still disposed to sling all our calamities on the Proprietor. It is notorious that the Proprietor looses greatly by the depopulation and slavery of the frontier countries; but you are the persons who gain by it; for the fewer the new counties are, the more likely the Quakers are to hold their power in the province. Yet we are told (o) that the Proprietor has made slaves of us all, and will presently (make us lords, and) bring us to the block. A curious politician is this same orator of your’s.------We are told that the change is easy, from Proprietary-Slavery to Royal-Liberty. It is a pity that the change is easy, from Quaker-Slavery to British-Liberty. For my part, I cannot see what you mean, by talking as if we were not already under his Majesty’s government:----We conceive that we are under it; and are ready to spend the last drop of blood, rather than submit to any other Sovereign: That’s more than you can say.---

(o) By J------------ G----------------y, Esq.

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