experiments have now been made, and failed; in every town, nay, every
cottage, in the Jerseys, where your arms have been, is a testimony
against you. How you may rest under this sacrifice of character I
know not; but this I know, that you sleep and rise with the daily
curses of thousands upon you; perhaps the misery which the Tories
have suffered by your proffered mercy may give them some claim to
their country's pity, and be in the end the best favor you could show
them.

* As some people may doubt the truth of such wanton destruction, I
think it necessary to inform them that one of the people called
Quakers, who lives at Trenton, gave me this information at the house
of Mr. Michael Hutchinson, (one of the same profession,) who lives
near Trenton ferry on the Pennsylvania side, Mr. Hutchinson being
present.

In a folio general-order book belonging to Col. Rhal's battalion,
taken at Trenton, and now in the possession of the council of safety
for this state, the following barbarous order is frequently repeated,
"His excellency the Commander-in-Chief orders, that all inhabitants
who shall be found with arms, not having an officer with them, shall
be immediately taken and hung up." How many you may thus have
privately sacrificed, we know not, and the account can only be
settled in another world. Your treatment of prisoners, in order to
distress them to enlist in your infernal service, is not to be
equalled by any instance in Europe. Yet this is the humane Lord Howe
and his brother, whom the Tories and their three-quarter kindred, the
Quakers, or some of them at least, have been holding up for patterns
of justice and mercy!