"Sam": or The history of mystery./ By C. W. Webber.

A SAM:" OR, THE HISTORY OF MYSTERY.
and it pleased Almighty God to send that one in the person
of GEORGE WASHINGTON."
The modern tories, to whom we alluded in introducing
this fine sketch, will find something also, in the subjoined
papers to freshen their memories, in regard to who were most
justly regarded as tories of the olden time:
BRITISH IN PHILADELPHIA.
A much-valued friend has placed in the hands of the editor,
a large volume of papers, containing the correspondence of
Brigadier-General Lacey, of Pennsylvania, who commanded
the Militia stationed on the east bank of the Schuylkill, to
watch the motions of the enemy, and prevent his obtaining
supplies.
General Lacey's orders to his scouting parties, March 9,
1778:-" If your parties should meet with any people going
to market, or any persons whatever going to the city, and
they endeavor to make their escape, you will order your men
to fire upon the villains. You will leave such on the roads —
their bodies and their marketing lying together. This I
wish you to execute on the first offenders you meet, that they
may be a warning to others."
General Washington to General Lacey, dated at Valley
Forge, 20th March, 1778:-Sunday next being the time on
which the Quakers hold one of their general meetings, a
number of that society will probably be attempting to go into
Philadelphia. This is an intercourse that we should by all
means endeavor to interrupt, as the plans settled at these
meetings are of the most pernicious tendency.:' I would
o I was in great doubt-whether I ought to publish or suppress this letler-but, on reflection, have thought best to insert it. It must be admitted
that a great majority of the Quakers in Pennsylvania, were " well inclined"
to the British, and some of them went great lengths out of the rules of
their profession, to aid and comfort the enemy of their country; others by
adhering to those rules and refusing to take any part in the contest, even
by the payment of taxes, were improperly suspected of disaffection, when
in fact they were only neutral, refusing to have anything to do with the
war; a few, however, laid aside their testimony against fighting, and contended gallantly for freedom. Persons of this religious persuasion in some
other States, were sincerely attached to the cause of Independence, and
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