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ons in Autumn, the proprietary party representing that the king's little finger would be found heavier than the proprietaries' whole loins, succeeded, by about twenty votes among near four thousand, in defeating Franklin's return as the representative of Philadelphia. But the majority of the new assembly placed in him unabated confidence, and conforming to the happy suggestions of Rhode Island, they proceeded to an act which in its consequences was to influence the world. On the twenty-sixth day of October, they elected Benjamin Franklin their agent, and in spite of the bitter protest of his opponents, he sailed for England with the sacred charge of the liberties of his country in his custody. At that time Pennsylvania was employing her men and her treasure to defend the West. To secure a firm peace with the Indians on the Ohio it was chap X.} 1764. Oct. desirable to show a strong force in the midst of their settlements. The regular army was feeble, and could furnish scarcely