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The Plain Dealer, Numb. I - 19

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of government, let them petition; but sooner by no means.----Suffer me to say, that when there are petitions before the Assembly from two or three thousand frontier inhabitants, and more are daily coming in, praying for redress of grievances, that at such a time to push for a new government, instead of letting the people be redress’d; such conduct, I say, and at such a time, will admit of constructions very dishonorable to your society.

It is cruel to deprive people of their liberties, and when they cry for justice, immediately to raise a counter-cry, and let the province in a ferment about another affair, lest the groans of the injur’d should be heard. Therefore, instead of listening to new schemes, I am resolv’d, and hope that every lover of this province and of liberty, will resolve to listen to no proposals for a change of government, until justice is done to the injur’d, the oppress’d and groaning inhabitants of our frontier-counties.-----

W.D.

P.S. In the next we purpose to shew how little regard the Quakers have paid to decency or truth; and how they have not once spoke to the true subject of complaint, in all the pamphlets they have wrote.

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