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The Quakers Assisting to Preserve the Lives of the Indians - 13

I am well assured this Unmasker would have had as much Reason to have blam’d the good People of the City, if they had clapt the Indians in the Workhouse-Yard and secured them there, as to have defended them at the Barracks, the odds is none in fact, the stone Walls would then have been their Asyalum. As in the other the Number of Men with their Preparation, was their City of Refuge, but our Workhouse could have been no more a Place of Safety to them Indians, than Lancaster Workhouse to their Brethren; I understand the fundamental of the Quakers Principals, are to be guided and directed in this Life by the Spirit of God: well if so, that holy Spirit that gave the abovementioned Law, was the Spirit of the same God,---then I am sure there is not any thing can or will argue in stronger terms for their tender Principles than their honourable Procedures in Philadelphia,---for God is the same, his Spirit the same, his Rule and Sovereignty the same:---then whatever Men opposes or vilifyes their Principles in this Race, must disregard the Law, despise the Spirit that gave it, and bid Defiance to the God of all Flesh. I ask our Unmasker if he is the Man.

PHILANTHROPOS

P.S. I look upon this Pamphleteer to be a very injudicious Man to caluminate a Society of reli-
 

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