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The Quaker Unmasked - 3

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Address’d to the PUBLIC

AT a Time when we seem to be rent in Pieces by PARTY SPIRIT and PARTY RAGE, I think it is a Duty incumbent on every good Subject to make diligent Search, in order to find out the Aggressors, and then to inform the Public how he has found Matters to stand; that so common Opinions may be confirm’d or refuted, and the Saddle at last be put on the right Horse, and Peace again restored among us.

FIRST THEN, Let us consider the Paxton Voluntiers, and others, against whom some make such an Outcry:----Shall we attempt to vindicate their killing Indians under the Protection of the Government? By no means. The Fact is to be condemn’d as unlawful; but though we would not vindicate their Conduct in every Respect, is it not the Duty of every good Man impartially to consider what have been the Circumstances of those People, and what they suffered to provoke them to this desperate and unlawful Act?

Would not this Course discover more of that meek and christian Spirit, which some People so much prosess and

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