Note 373 — Chapter XXV · 1764. THE RIOTERS MARCH ON PHILADELPHIA.
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MS Elder Papers
The following verses are extracted from a poem, published at Philadelphia, by a partisan of the Paxton men, entitled,
“The Cloven Foot Discovered
“Go on, good Christians, never spare To give your Indians Clothes to wear, Send ’em good Beef, and Pork, and Bread, Guns, Powder, Flints, and Store of Lead, To Shoot your Neighbours through the Head, Devoutly then, make Affirmation, You’re Friends to George and British Nation, Encourage ev’ry friendly Savage, To murder, burn, destroy, and ravage, Fathers and Mothers here maintain, Whose Sons add Numbers to the slain, Of Scotch and Irish let them kill As many Thousands as they will, That you may lord it o’er the Land, And have the whole and sole command.”