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  Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
  
  The speech of Samuel Chew, Esq; chief justice of the government of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex upon Delaware: delivered from the bench to the grand-jury of the county of New-Castle, Nov. 21. 1741; and now published at their request.
  Date of publication:
  1741
  

  Author(s):

  Chew, Samuel, 1693-1744.
  Description:
  Expressing his belief, as a Quaker judge, in the rightness of defensive war.
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  Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
  
  Smith's animadversions upon, and refutations of sundry gross errors, mistakes and blunders, contained in a certain pamphlet handed about in this government, in the form of a sermon or speech. [Ten lines of quotation]
  Date of publication:
  1742
  

  Author(s):

  Smith.
  Description:
  Rebutting Samuel Chew's rejection of Quaker pacifism as expressed in his speech to the Grand Jury in Nov. 1741. Ascribed to the press of Andrew Bradford by Evans.
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  Evans-TCP (Phase 1)
  
  Necessary truth: or Seasonable considerations for the inhabitants of the city of Philadelphia, and province of Pennsylvania. In relation to the pamphlet call'd Plain truth: and two other writers in the news-paper. : [Six lines from Isaiah]
  Date of publication:
  1748
  

  Author(s):

  Smith, Samuel, 1720-1776.
  Description:
  Expressing the Society of Friends' pacifist stance, in response to Benjamin Franklin's "Plain truth" (Evans 5948). Attributed to Samuel Smith by Hildeburn. Ascribed to the press of William Bradford by Evans.
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