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The Quaker Unmasked - 5

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TERRIBLE! indeed beyond Description, are the Cruelties daily practiced by those Savages on our Fellow Subjects, while Prisoners amongst them! But where are the Quakers who have taken up Arms to defend them? Where are the Quakers who have sympathized with them, or pitied their Distress? Let their Christian Conduct since the Commencement of the War declare.------

WHEN the Indian Incursions last Summer laid waste a considerable Part of our Frontier, by which near a thousand Families were drove from their Places, reduced to the utmost Poverty, and thrown upon the Public-Charity for the Support of their miserable Lives.---How did these meek, merciful, compassionate Quakers (who would seem to monopolize Christian Charity, and all the Tenderness of human Nature amongst themselves) behave on so melancholy an Occasion?----To their immortal Infamy be it known, that when every other religious Society in the City, even the Roman Catholicks, whom they so much despise, (tho’ saddled at the Time with the heavy Expence of building a Chapel) were sensibly affected with the Distresses of the poor unhappy Sufferers, and promoted very generous and liberal Contributions for their Relief and Support, These compassionate and merciful Christians, so easily affected with Pity for Indians, would not grant a single Farthing (as a Society) for the Relief of their Fellow Subjects. Tho’ Justice requires we should exempt from this Odium a few worthy Individuals in the City, who contributed on the Occasion; as also a few others in the Town and Neighbourhood of Lancaster, who raised about Thirty Pounds for the same Purpose.

WHEREAS when their Good Brethren the Indians (some of whom were well known by the Officers now in the City, to

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