Protesting the Riots Against the Pacifist Quakers

(QUAKERS). DRINKER, JOHN (Clerk). [Eight lines.] To the President and Executive Council, the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, and others whom it may concern; The following Representation on Behalf of the People called Quakers...[Caption title & partial text]. [Philadelphia: Francis Bailey, 1761]. 1st ed. 4to. 3 pp. Folded, as issued. Three sides trimmed fairly close. $400.00

Evans 17166. Signed and dated in type by the clerk on November 22, 1781, on behalf of a meeting of the representatives of Friends Society of Philadelphia, to protest "the outrages and violences committed on the property, and on divers of the persons, of the inhabitants of Philadelphia, of our religious society, by companies of licentious people parading the streets, destroying the windows and doors of our houses, breaking into and plundering some of them, on the evening of the 24th of last month..." A powerful, early admonishment to attacks upon the Quakers of Philadelphia for their non-violent and pacifistic views.