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courses and Advice of some prudent Persons, who voluntarily M'ent out 

 to meet and admonish them ; and of some Gentlemen sent by the Gov- 

 ernor, to know the Reasons of their Insurrection ; and promised to return 

 peaceably to tlieir Habitations, leaving only two of their Number to pre- 

 sent a Petition to tlie Governor and Assembly ; on which the Companies 

 raised in Town were thanked by the Governor on Tuesday Evening, and 

 dismissed, and the City restored to its former Quiet. 



But on Wednesday Morning there was a fresh Alarm, occasioned by a 

 false Report, that Four Hundred of the same People were on their March 

 to Attack the Town. Immediately, on Beat of Drum, a much greater 

 number of the Inhabitants, with the utmost Alacrity, put themselves 

 under Arms ; but as the Truth was soon known, they were again thanked 

 by the Governor, and dismissed ; the Country People being really dis- 

 persed, and gone home according to their Promise. — Pennsylcania Gazette, 

 No. 1833. 



The following extract from a letter of Rev. John Ewing to Joseph Reed 

 atfords a striking example of the excitement among the Presbyterians. 

 (See Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed, I. 34.) 



Feb. — , 1764. 



As to public affairs, our Province is greatly involved in intestine feuds, 

 at a time, when we should rather unite, one and all, to manage the affairs 

 of our several Governments, with prudence and discretion. A few 

 designing men, having engrossed too much power into their hands, are 

 pushing matters beyond all bounds. There are twenty-two Quakers in 

 our Assembly, at present, wlio, although they won't absolutely refuse to 

 grant money for the King's use, yet never fail to contrive matters in such 

 a manner as to afford little or no assistance to the poor, distressed Fron- 

 tiers ; while our public money is lavishly squandered aAvay in supporting 

 a number of savages, who have been murdering and scalping us for many 

 years past. This has so enraged some desperate young men, who had 

 lost their nearest relations, by these very Indians, to cut off about twenty 

 Indians that lived near Lancaster, who had, during the war, carried on a con- 

 stant intercourse with our other enemies ; and they came down to German- 

 town to inquire why Indians, known to be enemies, were supported, even 

 in luxury, with the best that our markets afforded, at the public expense, 

 while they were left in the utmost distress on the Frontiers, in want of 

 the necessaries of life. Ample promises were made to them that their 

 grievances should be redressed, upon which they immediately dispersed 

 and went home. These persons have been unjustly represented as endeav- 

 oring to overturn Government, when nothing was more distant from tlieir 

 minds. However this matter may be looked upon in Britain, where you 

 know very little of the matter, you may be assured that ninety-nine in an 

 hundred of the Province are firmly persuaded, that they are maintaining 

 our enemies, while our friends back are suffering the greatest extremities, 

 neglected; and that few, but Quakers, think that the Lancaster Indians 

 have suffered any thing but their just deserts. 'Tis not a little surprising 



