The Plain Dealer, Numb. III - 15
IT was not enough that the Quakers should encourage and support the Indians in depopulating the province, but they have also taken every public measure to impede his Majesty’s service, and prevent the frontier inhabitants from receiving any reasonable protection. At first they would grant no money, and when they were oblig’d to grant any, they always quarelled with the Governor so long in the spring, that they knew little service could be done by the troops when raised. The Lords of Trade, advising his Majesty not to condemn a certain act, tho’ it was not a good one, make this remark. “When we look back upon the conduct of this province [Pennsylvania] when we consider how often and ineffectually they were solicited at the commencement of the War to contribute to the public service, we are extremely disinclined to furnish not only any real discouragement, but even any colourable pretext for with-holding that assistance in which the welfare of the public and of the province may be so essentially interested.”
OUR Quaker Lawyer and Politician has the impudence to deny every thing that has been urged concerning the inhumanity and prosusion of a Quaker Assembly. He says, The right and power of superintending the protection of the frontiers were solely in the Governor, The Assembly never had the disposal of a single farthing of the public money. The Commissioners only had the power of applying the money with the Governor’s consent, to particular uses. Does this man believe there is such a thing as truth and falshood, when he abuses the publick in this manner. The Philosopher also is said to have corrected this piece before it was printed, but the Philosopher is excusable, for he did not observe the falshoods contain’d in it, as he seldoms understands words in the plain natural meaning in which his Majesty and the English na-
