The First Congress, 1790; debates re House Committee Report on the Quaker slavery petitions, March 17-23, 1790:
- MR. BURKE animadverted with great freedom on the past and present conduct of the Quakers. He denied that they were the friends of freedom; he said that during the late war they were for bringing this country under a foreign yoke; they descended to the character of spies; they supplied the enemy with provisions; they were guides and conductors to their armies; and whenever the American army came into their neighborhood they found themselves in an enemy's country.
Mr. Burke was proceeding in this strain when he was interrupted by being called to order. A warm altercation ensued.
(from Great Debates in American History, by United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament, Marion Mills Miller, published 1913, Current Literature Publishing Company)
