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280 conduct of their assemblies is impartially examined, and which passed through three editions in London. 8 This was charged with being written " with a view to render the Quakers of Pennsylvania and their Government obnoxious to the British Parliament and Ministry." And Smith wrote a second letter entitled A Brief View of the Conduct of Pennsylvania for the year 1755 Interspersed with several interesting anecdotes and original papers relating to the politics and principles of of the people called Quakers, which was published in London in I756. 9 In his first letter, Smith affords us some interesting figures of the population of the Province: that the inhabitants were to be computed to be two hundred and twenty thousand one third Germans, two fifths Quakers, more than one fifth Presbyterians, and some few Baptists. One fourth of the Germans were Roman Catholics. [He] suggested that Christopher Sauer was a popish emissary, in the pay of the Quakers. And the consequence of Sauer's influence " was that the Germans voted with the Quakers, were under the control of that party, and always voted to keep them in power." And he recommended to suspend the right of voting for members of the Assembly from' the Germans until they have sufficient knowledge of our language and constitution: and to make all bonds, wills and other legal contracts, void, unless in the English tongue; that no newspapers, almanacs, or periodical paper, by whatsoever name it may be called, be printed or circulated in foreign language; or, at least, if allowed, with a just and fair English version of such foreign language printed in one column of the same page or pages, along with the said foreign language. And yet we have found him pursuing, in response to Franklin's wise suggestion, the better course in the Society for the education of the Germans of meeting the redoubtable Christopher Sauer with his own weapons, and employing a German press to circulate its publications among those dreaded foreigners 8 Smith, i. 122, 123. 9 The Pennsylvania Journal of 27 May, 1756, announces this, "Being a Sequel to a Late well known Pamphlet Intitled a Brief State of Pennsylvania."

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