152 RIOTERS MARCH ON PHILADELPHIA. [1764, Feb. 



accused the Presbyterians of conniving at the act 

 of murderers, of perverting Scripture for their 

 defence, and of aiding the rioters with counsel and 

 money in their audacious attempt against the pub- 

 lic peace. The Presbyterians, on their part, with 

 about equal justice, charged the Quakers with 

 leaguing themselves with the common enemy and 

 exciting them to war. They held up to scorn those 

 accommodating principles which denied the aid of 

 arms to suffering fellow-countrymen, but justified 

 their use at the first call of self-interest. The 

 Quaker warrior, in his sober garb of ostentatious 

 simplicity, his prim person adorned with military 

 trappings, and his hands grasping a musket which 

 threatened more peril to himself than to his enemy, 

 was a subject of ridicule too tempting to be over- 

 looked. 



While this paper warfare was raging in the city, 

 the representatives of the frontiersmen. Smith and 

 Gibson, had laid before the Assembly the memorial, 

 entitled the Remonstrance ; and to this a second 

 paper, styled a Declaration, was soon afterwards 

 added. ^ Various grievances were specified, for 

 which redress was demanded. It was urged that 



the Title therefore is a deception, and tlie contents manifestly false : in 

 short, I have carefully examined it, and find in it no less than 17 Positive 

 Lies, and 10 false Insinuations contained in 15 pages. Monstrous, and from 

 what has been said must conclude that when you wrote it, Truth was 

 banished entirely from you, and that you wrote it with a truly Pious 

 Lying P n Spirit, which appears in almost every Line ! " 



The peaceful society of Friends found among its ranks more than one 

 such champion as the ingenious writer of the above. Two collections of 

 these pamphlets have been examined, one preserved in the City Library 

 of Philadelphia, and the other in that of the New York Historical Society. 



1 See Appendix, E. 



