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The Plain Dealer, Numb. I - 9

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duct of yours, and not the price of lands, was the true cause of thousands leaving this province. The Scots and Irish were rode by main force; and the unhappy Germans, being ignorant of our constitution, have been blindly led into your schemes, and patiently groan’d under the burthen, while their wives, their children, and all were perishing by fire and hatchet.

But when you find that the province is to be enslav’d no longer; the frontier countries, almost to a man, insist on having justice done them; the Hibernian winches beneath his yoke; the German, having lost every thing else, begins to pray that you would spare his life:---- In short, the voice of misery and distress is no longer to be stifled, now you propose to lead us another dance.

The Proprietor is no more; by 26 very decent and very modest Resolves of the House, you conceive him as dead as Harry the Eighth. So the helm must be clap’d hard to lee, and we shall be in about a jerk. Nothing else than a King’s government will now suit the stomach of a Quaker politician: Not that you all love his Majesty neither, for some of you would not willingly give fix-pence to support his cause; many who now push for a King’s government, have never paid a farthing of a tax for the King’s use, but as their goods have been destrain’d. You would not take up arms for him, when his dominions were at stake; not because you are

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