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justify us in, as it bears an Appearance of flying in the Face of Author- 

 ity, and is attended with much Labour, Fatigue and Expence. 



Ourselves then, to a Man, we profess to be loyal Subjects to the best 

 of Kings, our rightful Sovereign George tlie Third, firmly attached to his 

 Royal Person, Interest and Government, and of Consequence equally 

 opposite to the Enemies of his Throne and Dignity, whetlier openly 

 avowed, or more dangerously concealed under a Mask of falsely pretended 

 Friendship, and chearfully willing to offer our Substance and Lives in 

 his Cause. 



These Indians, known to be firmly connected in Friendship with our 

 openly avowed embittered Enemies, and some of whom have, by several 

 Oaths, been proved to be Murderers, and who, by their better Acquaint- 

 ance with the Situation and State of our Frontier, were more capable of 

 doing us Mischief, we saw, with Indignation, cherished and caressed as 

 dearest Friends;— But this, alas ! is but a Part, a small Part, of that 

 excessive Regard manifested to Indians, beyond his Majesty's loyal 

 Subjects, whereof we complain, and which, together with various other 

 Grievances, have not only inflamed with Resentment the Breasts of a 

 Number, and urged them to the disagreeable Evidence of it, they have 

 been constrained to give, but have heavily displeased, by fiir, the greatest 

 Part of the good Inhabitants of this Province. 



Should we here reflect to former Treaties, the exorbitant Presents, 

 and great Servility therein paid to Indians, have long been oppressive 

 Grievances we have groaned under ; and when at the last Indian Treaty 

 held at Lancaster, not only was the Blood of our many murdered Breth- 

 ren tamely covered, but our poor unhappy captivated Friends abandoned 

 to Slavery among the Savages, by concluding a Friendship with the 

 Indians, and allowing them a plenteous trade of all kinds of Commodities, 

 without those being restored, or any properly spirited Requisition made of 

 them: — How general Dissatisfaction those Measures gave, the Murmurs 

 of all good people (loud as they dare to utter them) to this Day declare. 

 And had here infatuated Steps of Conduct, and a manifest Partiality in 

 Favour of Indians, made a final Pause, happy had it been : — We per- 

 haps had grieved in Silence for our abandoned enslaved Brethren among 

 the Heathen, but Matters of a later Date are still more flagrant Reasons 

 of Complaint. — When last Summer his Majesty's Forces, under the 

 Command of Colonel Bouquet, marched through this Province, and a 

 Demand was made by his Excellency, General Amherst, of Assistance, 

 to escort Provisions, &c., to relieve that important Post, Fort Pitt, yet not 

 one Man was granted, although never any Thing appeared more reason- 

 able or necessary, as the Interest of the Province lay so much at Stake, 

 and the Standing of the Frontier Settlements, in any Manner, evidently 

 depended, under God, on the almost despaired of Success of his Majesty's 

 little Army, whose Valour the whole Frontiers with Gratitude acknowl- 

 edge, as the happy Means of having saved from Ruin great Part of the 

 Province : — But when a Number of Indians, falsely pretended Friends 

 and having among them some proved on Oath to have been guilty of 



