erican states for terms of peace, than with
those, whom she denominates, "rebellious subjects," for terms of
accommodation. It is our delaying it that encourages her to hope for
conquest, and our backwardness tends only to prolong the war. As we
have, without any good effect therefrom, withheld our trade to obtain a
redress of our grievances, let us now try the alternative, by
independantly redressing them ourselves, and then offering to open the
trade. The mercantile and reasonable part in England, will be still
with us; because, peace with trade, is preferable to war without it.
And if this offer be not accepted, other courts may be applied to.

On these grounds I rest the matter. And as no offer hath yet been made
to refute the doctrine contained in the former editions of this
pamphlet, it is a negative proof, that either the doctrine cannot be
refuted, or, that the party in favour of it are too numerous to be
opposed. WHEREFORE, instead of gazing at each other with suspicious or
doubtful curiosity; let each of us, hold out to his neighbour the
hearty hand of friendship, and unite in drawing a line, which, like an
act of oblivion shall bury in forgetfulness every former dissension.
Let the names of Whig and Tory be extinct; and let none other be heard
among us, than those of A GOOD CITIZEN, AN OPEN AND RESOLUTE FRIEND,
AND A VIRTUOUS SUPPORTER OF THE RIGHTS OF MANKIND AND OF THE _FREE AND
INDEPENDANT STATES OF AMERICA_.

To the Representatives of the Religious Society of the People called
Quakers, or to so many of them as were concerned in publishing the late
piece, entitled "THE ANCIENT TESTIMONY and PRINCIPLES of the People
called QUAKERS renewed, with Respect to the KING and GOVERNMENT, and
touching the COMMOTIONS now prevailing in these and other parts of
AMERICA addressed to the PEOPLE IN GENERAL."

The Writer of this, is one of those few, who never dishonours religion
either by ridiculing, or cavilling at any denomination whatsoever. To
God, and not to man, are all men accountable on the score of religion.
Wherefore, this epistle is not so properly addressed to you as a
religious, but as a political body, dabbling in matters, which the
professed Quietude of your Principles instruct you not to meddle with.
As you have, without a proper authority for so doing, put yourselves in
the place of the whole body of the Quakers, so, the writer of this, in
order to be on an equal rank with yourselves, is under the