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The Plain Dealer, Numb. I - 7

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them that they were cheated; and that was the proper way to make them kill the people: You attended at public treaties; procured a secretary of state(k) for your Indian King, and furnish’d him with whatever was necessary for his purposes and your’s. When the Governor complain’d of this treasonable tampering and treating with your Indians, you modestly told him that you would do it whether he was pleas’d with it or not; for you did not chuse to leave the Governour and King’s agent to manage the business without you. (l) We need not tell what blood this has cost our province: The miserable Dutch and Irish on the frontiers have felt your scourge, and the groans of many a thousand widows and fatherless children which daily pierce the heavens, will tell you, as far as the Quaker-government in Pennsylvania shall be known.

In order yet to prove that you have abus’d the province, need I mention how the public money has been squandered away? You rais’d large sums, but always granted them too late, as tho’ on purpose that little might be done. Was ever half a million of money so consumed as it has been in this province? It was not with our many troops; for a New-England colony has rais’d three times the number of troops, and yet never spent such sums of money. Does any man ask

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(l) This was done in an address to the Governor, 1757.

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