“We apprehend that as freeman and English subjects, we have…
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“We аpprehend thаt аs freeman and English subjects, we have an indisputable title tо the same privileges and immunities with His Majesty’ оther subjects whо reside in the interior counties…and therefore ought not to be excluded from an equal share with them in the very important privilege of legislation…We cannot but observe with sorrow and indignation that some persons in this province are at pains to extenuate the barbarous cruelties practiced by these savages on our murdered brethren and relatives…by this means the Indians have been taught to despise us as a weak and disunited people, and from this fatal source have arisen many of our calamities…We humbly pray therefore that this grievance may be addressed.”-The Paxton Boys, to the Pennsylvania Assembly, “A Remonstrance of Distressed and Bleeding Frontier Inhabitants,” 1764The basic concern voiced in the above excerpt is with the conduct of which of the following?