common phrase with these people is, 'Our principles are peace.' To
which may be replied, and your practices are the reverse; for never
did the conduct of men oppose their own doctrine more notoriously
than the present race of the Quakers. They have artfully changed
themselves into a different sort of people to what they used to be,
and yet have the address to persuade each other that they are not
altered; like antiquated virgins, they see not the havoc deformity
has made upon them, but pleasantly mistaking wrinkles for dimples,
conceive themselves yet lovely and wonder at the stupid world for not
admiring them.

Did no injury arise to the public by this apostacy of the Quakers
from themselves, the public would have nothing to do with it; but as
both the design and consequences are pointed against a cause in which
the whole community are interested, it is therefore no longer a
subject confined to the cognizance of the meeting only, but comes, as
a matter of criminality, before the authority either of the
particular State in which it is acted, or of the continent against
which it operates. Every attempt, now, to support the authority of
the king and Parliament of Great Britain over America, is treason
against every State; therefore it is impossible that any one can
pardon or screen from punishment an offender against all.

But to proceed: while the infatuated Tories of this and other States
were last spring talking of commissioners, accommodation, making the
matter up, and the Lord knows what stuff and nonsense, their good
king and ministry were glutting themselves with the revenge of
reducing America to unconditional submission, and solacing each other
with the certainty of conquering it in one campaign. The following
quotations are from the parliamentary register of the debate's of the