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maintenance of the troops, but they looked on uncon- 

 cerned if without further question such things were 

 taken as needed. 



During the late war, however, certain of the Quak- 

 ers permitted themselves to be led astray by the spirit 

 of schism and took an active part in the war ; but these, 

 with their friends and adherents, were excluded from 

 the meetings of the genuine, orthodox Quakers. Upon 

 that, they built themselves a meeting-house of their 

 own, in Arch-street, between Fourth and Fifth-street, 

 where they will, like the others, quietly await the mov- 

 ing of the same spirit. Their number is not large and 

 they are distinguished by the name of Fighting Quak- 

 ers. It might perhaps have been possible, by compli- 

 ance on either side, to avoid a separation ; but since this 

 is never the case in matters of opinion and faith, and 

 since the break has gone so far as the erection of a 

 new meeting-house, there will be no re-union, if only 

 because the building would then have been raised to no 

 purpose : and so Philadelphia gains a new rubric in 

 the list of its sects. A certain Matlock + is one of the 

 most conspicuous of these fighting Quakers, or quak- 

 ing fighters, and made no scruple of accepting a 

 colonelcy in the American army. Hr had always been 

 an enterprising genius, and as a consequence had debts. 

 When he was just made Colonel, and with his sword 

 at his side, was walking the streets, an acquaintance 

 met him ' Friend, what doest thee with that thing at 

 thy side?' 'Protecting Liberty and Property,' (two 

 words very current in England and America), an- 

 swered the Colonel. ' Eh,' said his friend, ' as for prop- 

 erty I never knew thee had any, and liberty, that thee 

 hast by the indulgence of the brethren.' 

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