The Quaker Vindicated - 4
How unfair does this Unmasker proceed in the next paragraph, "The Savage Indian Butchers—whose cause and interest Quakers so warmly espouse". Do the Quakers, or any one else, espouse the cause of such? Did not several of the Rioters examine all the Indians at the Barracks that the City has protected? and didn't they acknowledge that they knew not one of them? then how groundless is this Assertion!—
Again, "Terrible! indeed beyond Description, are the Cruelties daily practised by those Savages on our Fellow-Subjects, while Prisoners amongst them! But where are the Quakers who have taken up arms to defend them"? Defend who? — What, defend those that are prisoners? — Have not the Quakers bore their burden of taxes equal with others? and what other way has any interior part of the Province defended its Frontiers?
The Unmasker now opens a paragraph as angry as it is grossly fallacious; "When the Indian incursions last summer laid waste a considerable part of our Frontier, how did these meek Quakers behave on so melancholy an occasion; to their immortal Infamy be it known that they would not grant a single farthing (as a Society) for the relief of their poor Fellow-Subjects". A great deficiency appears here in his "diligent Search": The Quakers (or Incendiaries, as he handsomely calls them) did make a Collection as a Society, but withheld it for a while, as there were generous Contributions sent to the assistance of the Frontier-Inhabitants, by several other Societies in Town; thinking, that, when those Monies had been nigh exhausted, their Subscriptions might be of greater use. Accordingly some Gentlemen of their Society (with whom the Money was deposited) wrote several times to a Clergyman in one of the Frontier-Townships, desiring him to take upon him the distribution of their Money, as he was best acquainted with the circumstances of those
