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The Plain Dealer, Numb. III - 11

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than the gentleman can say who has abused me so liberally. For when he moved to bribe the Governor to pass some unjust laws, it is well known that one of his principal motives was, that he might get an office to himself out of the hands of a man, whose locks were grown white in the honest and faithful service of the public. You don’t expect reader that I should recount all the villainous practices of this faction.

I could a Tale unfold whose lightest word.
Would harrow up thy foul and freeze thy blood.

AND perhaps this may be necessary in some after day; but at present I have only to give some out lines of their character.

THAT many a thousand pounds have been distributed in support of Indians, his Majesty’s enemies:---that they have aided and encouraged in plundering and murthering the frontier inhabitants, are propositions that can hardly be disputed; but least they should, I shall offer a few Proofs of them, out of a great Number that I am provided with.

VERY early in the War the Quakers persuaded the Indians that the Proprietor and the Traders had cheated them, and therefore they ought to scourge the white people who live on the frontiers. In other words, plunder, tomahawk, and burn them; and they faithfully adhered to the advice. But when the malicious and false stories, with which the Indians had been exasperated, were like to be refuted, and by that means peace again restored to the frontiers; the Quakers endeavoured to prevent the Indians from attending at the public treaties, and such as did attend they endeavoured to fill with dissidence of the King’s agents and anger against the province. To prevent the Indians from attending at one of the Easton treaties, a horse was hired by some eminent Quaker Assemblymen viz. J-----h F-----x,

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