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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
ablest defenders, the enterprise, which still appeared to him as the jewel of his kingdom, Oxenstiern, in Argonautica Gustaviana. Compare Erinnerung, in Mercurius Germaniae, 1. These very rare tlibrary. was recommended to the people of Germany. In confirming the invitation to Germany, Oxenstiern 1633 April 10. declares himself to be but the executor of the wish of Gustavus. The same wise me, dated December 12, 1634, printed at Hamburg, 1635. The consequences of this design, said Oxenstiern, will be favorable to all Christendom, to Europe, to the whole world. And were they not so? The first permanent colonization of the banks of the Delaware is due to Oxenstiern. Yet more than four years passed away before the design was carried into effect. We have seen Minu- 1638 it, themen and soldiers whom Gustavus had edu- Chap. XV.} cated, had passed from the public service; Oxenstiern, after adorning retirement by the sublime pursuits of philosophy, was no more; a youthful and
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
bucaniers. Hazard's Register, i 16, 108, 289. Meantime the news spread abroad, that William 1683 to 1688 Penn, the Quaker, had opened an asylum to the good and the oppressed of every nation; and humanity went through Europe, gathering the children of misfortune. From England and Wales, Ibid. VI. 238, 239 from Scotland and Ireland, and the Low Countries, emigrants crowded to the land of promise. On the banks of the Rhine, it was whispered that the plans of Gustavus Adolphus and Oxenstiern were consummated; new companies were formed under better auspices than those of the Swedes; and from the highlands above Worms, the humble people who had melted at the eloquence of Penn, the Quaker emissary, renounced their German Chap XVI.} homes for the protection of the Quaker king. There is nothing in the history of the human race like the confidence which the simple virtues and institutions of William Penn inspired. The progress of his province was more rapid than the progress of