I doubt not therefore but ye will readily shew the same clemency towards
innocent and inoffensive men, which any one may expect from your Honors,
whose business is not to destroy but to save and benefit mankind.
May it please you therefore to send orders to the Magistrate of Savannah
that these people may have leave to depart that Province.
I do assure your Honors they always thought it a great favor that ye
were pleased to send them thither; but now they will think it a greater
to be dismissed."
In reply the Trustees wrote to Mr. Causton, forbidding the introduction
of martial law without their express order, and reproving him for having
required more than two men from the Moravians, but in that very reproof
practically insisting that two must serve. The Moravians thought
they had defined their position clearly at the outset, and believed
they had the Trustees' promise that all should be as they desired,
and if the Trustees realized the construction placed upon their words
they had taken a most unfair advantage of the Moravians
by offering them the two town lots as a special favor,
and then using the ownership of those lots as a lever
to force unwelcome service.
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