The Quaker Unmasked - 12
IT has been argued, if the Indians are guilty, let their Accusers appear, and not put them to Death without a fair Trial.---Indeed it is a hard Matter to prove an Indian guilty, unless he was taken in the Fact; for to Day they are painted red, To-morrow blue, and the next Day any other Colour that they think will best prevent their being known; But tho’ hard, it is not impossible with Respect to some.---It is certified that a Dutch Woman, now in the Jerseys, and her little Daughter, seeing the Gang of Indians now in our Barracks, passing thro’ that Province, knew the very Persons with whom they were Prisoners.---But it has been proved, by a very circumstantial Oath of a young Man, (who has since very unaccountably disappeared) that the Quakers, or Persons who appeared to be such, have conveyed off and concealed those that were most suspected.---If this be true, are not they the People who despise the Laws of their Country, and fly in the Face of Government, by stopping the Course of public Justice? Believe me my Countrymen, those who will shelter and conceal a Murderer, would perpetrate a Murder, and suborn or suppress an Evidence.
FROM what has been said, I hope my Countrymen will cooly consider whether Quakers are fit to be their Representatives or not, after such glaring and positive Proofs of their Insincerity; and whether we ought to continue to entrust them with our Lives and Liberties: But I do not speak of them all, nor condemn the Lump; I do not doubt but there are good Men amongst them, Men who would not hold the least Part in Government for all the
