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The Plain Dealer, Numb. I - 8

what is become of this money? Many a thousand pounds were spent in debating with the Governor about things you knew he could not grant; many thousands as bribes to G--------r D----, to obtain iniquitous laws, and to pervert justice; many a thousand to support your friends, in order to maintain your faction; many a thousand to murtherers, and his Majesty’s enemies; and a great many thousands where Quakers alone can tell, tho’ it may not suit them to tell: But hardly ever was a farthing given to support the naked and perishing frontier inhabitants; to whom the Indians that you fed, had left nothing but the miserable life. And in this present Indian war, it is notorious, that great sums of money were spent last summer, while the most effectual endeavors were used to order matters so as to render no effectual service to the poor and defenceless inhabitants. It is no wonder, as a Prime Minister lately informed us, that “His “Majesty sees through such artifices.” (m)

In this manner you have tyranniz’d over the good people on the frontiers of this province.---If you might avail your selves of a friendship and trade with the Indians, no matter what miseries we suffer’d; if you might help the Indians to recover their lands from the Proprietor, no matter what became of the people who lived on those lands: And suffer me to observe, this con-

(m) see Lord Eg---------t’s Letter.

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