The Plain Dealer, Numb. III - 23
UPON the whole of what I have said, I flatter myself it will appear exceeding plain to every honest man and good subject in this Province, that we have been abused by a Quaker faction, in a manner scarcely ever heard of in any other Government, that they have first deprived us of our charter privileges, and then delivered us up to destruction; some times by pleading conscience, and sometimes by making laws, which argu’d that they had no conscience.
THAT they have squandered the public money, by bribery and corruption; and hiring men at an extravagant rate, to support their wicked measures. That they have year after year, spent whole months in attempting acts which they knew the Governor could not approve, or if he should, they knew his Majesty would condemn; so that their chief purpose was evidently to consume time, and thereby retard his Majesty’s service, and sacrifice the lives of thousand of his good subjects. That they have availed themselves of public calamities to line their own pockets, and serve their faction at the expence of the province.-----That they alone having the management of public affairs and disposal of money, have shewn an absolute want of tenderness and compassion for the frontier inhabitants; have cruelly taken such measures as must expose them to death, or banishment by the Indians, and refused to preserve them when banished, from perishing with hunger.-----But that they have chearfully and liberally espoused the cause of our Indian enemies, inflamed their anger against the province, and thereby occasioned the massacre of many a hundred innocent people. That they have also cloathed and fed Indians, whom they knew to be mur-
