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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ladd, William 1778-1841 (search)
Ladd, William 1778-1841 Philanthropist; born in Exeter, N. H., May 10, 1778; graduated at Harvard in 1797; became an active champion of peace and took a conspicuous part in organizing the American Peace Society, of which he was for many years president. He wrote many essays in favor of peace, and edited the Friend of peace and Harbinger of peace newspapers, devoted to the cause. He went so far as to deny the right to maintain defensive war. He died in Portsmouth, N. H., April 9, 1841.
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 4 (search)
be supposed that any considerable number, if any, in Britain, ignorant as they generally are, think they are doing God service, by their cruelties and murders practised wantonly in America. Their barbarous conduct seems rather to proceed from a prevailing disbelief of the Being, or Providence of God. And, as they think they have no account to give hereafter, but shall die like the beasts, so they may safely live like them, without any restraint from reason or Religion. In a sermon, May 10, 1778, he says, It is unhappy that there are so many different persuasions among Professors of the Religion of the Blessed Son of God, and even of the Protestant Religion; some profess themselves to be of the Church of England, some Presbyterians; some call themselves Quakers, some Baptists; some are called Separatists and the like. These all pretend to worship the same God and Father of us all, to look for Salvation in and through Jesus Christ, our common Saviour and merciful Redeemer.