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Sewel, 474, is the contemporary authority. In the next year, Penn, having crossed the Alps, was just entering on the magnificence of Piedmont, when 1664 the appointment of his father to the command of a British squadron, in the naval war with Holland, compelled his return to the care of the estates of the family. The discipline of society and travel had given him grace of manners, enhanced by the severe but unpretending purity of his morals; and in London the travelled student of Lincoln's Inn, if diligent in gaining a 1664 1665 knowledge of English law, was yet esteemed a most modish fine gentleman. Pepys, i. 311. In France, the science of the Huguenots had nourished reflection; in London, every sentiment of sympathy was excited by the horrors which he witnessed during the devastations of the plague. Penn, II. 465. Having thus perfected his understanding by the 1665 learning of Oxford, the religion and philosophy of the French Huguenots and France, and the study o
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
his method of reform was the advice of William Penn. For in the mean time William Penn had become of Delaware, as an appendage to New York; Pennsylvania was, therefore, in that direction, limited ver and Bay were under the dominion of William Penn. Every arrangement for a voyage to his proviitants and the proprietary, and united with Pennsylvania on the basis of equal rights. The freedom House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania. Printed and sold by B. Franklin. P. 7. anorest, they were surpassed by the reality. Pennsylvania bound the northern and the southern coloniet for the hereditary office of proprietary, Pennsylvania had been a representative democracy. In Mar, he read the account of the government of Pennsylvania; it is perfect, if it can endure. Herder. Such was the birth of popular power in Pennsylvania and Delaware. It remained to dislodge supthat things went on sweetly with Friends in Pennsylvania; that they increased finely in outward thin[17 more...]
Herford (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (search for this): chapter 6
y and Penn went to and fro in Germany, from the Weser to the Mayne, the Rhine, and the Neckar, distributing tracts, discoursing with men of every sect and every rank, preaching in palaces and among the peasants, rebuking every attempt to inthrall the mind, and sending reproofs to kings and magistrates, to the princes and lawyers of all Christendom. The soul of William Penn was transported into fervors of devotion; and, in the ecstasies of enthusiasm, he explained the universal principle at Herford, in the tourt of the princess palatine, and to the few Quaker Chap XVI} 1678 converts among the peasantry of Kirchheim. To the peasantry of the highlands near Worms, the visit of William Penn was an event never to be forgotten. The opportunity of observing the aristocratic institutions of Holland and the free commercial cities of Germany, was valuable to a statesman. On his return to England, the new sufferings of the Quakers excited a direct appeal to the English parliament. The sp
Cambria (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 6
the six counties into which Penn's dominions were divided, nine representatives, Swedes, Dutch, and Quaker preachers, of Wales, and Ireland, and England, were elected for the purpose of establishing a charter of liberties. They desired it might be 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 thth popular rights. He resisted the commitment of the bishops to the tower, and, on the day of the birth of the prince of Wales, pressed the king exceedingly to set them at liberty. This excellent man lent himself to the measures of the king. Mackdor of his character always triumphed over calumny. His name was safely cherished as a household word in the cottages of Wales and Ireland, and among the peasantry of Germany; and not a tenant of a wigwam from the sea to the Susquehannah doubted hi
Quaker (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
and repeat to their children or to the stranger, the words of William Penn. Heckewelder, Hist. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc 176. New England had just terminated a disastrous war of extermination; the Dutch were scarcely ever Chap XVI.} 1682 at peace with the Algonquins; the laws of Maryland refer to Indian hostilities and massacres, which extend-1682 ed as far as Richmond. Penn came without arms; he declared his purpose to abstain from violence; he had no message but peace; and not a drop of Quaker blood was ever shed by an Indian. Was there not progress from Melendez to Roger Williams? from Cortez and Pizarro to William Penn? The Quakers, ignorant of the homage which their virtues would receive from Voltaire and Raynal, men so unlike themselves, exulted in the consciousness of their humanity. We have done better, said they truly, than if, with the proud Spaniards, we had gained the mines of Potosi. We may make the ambitious heroes, whom the world admires, blush for their shamef
Holland (Netherlands) (search for this): chapter 6
n may have alluded to his entrance within the capes. See the Newcastle Records, in Watson, 16. on the day after his landing, in presence of a crowd of Swedes, and Dutch, and English, who had gathered round the court-house, his deeds of feoffment were produced; the duke of York's agent surrendered the territory by the solemn delivefalse accuser was liable to double damages. Every prison for convicts was made a workhouse. There were neither poor rates nor tithes. The Swedes, and Finns, and Dutch, were invested with the liberties of Englishmen. Well might Lawrence Cook exclaim in their behalf, It is the best day we have ever seen. The work of legislation Watson's Phil. 225. was already the scene of legislation. From each of the six counties into which Penn's dominions were divided, nine representatives, Swedes, Dutch, and Quaker preachers, of Wales, and Ireland, and England, were elected for the purpose of establishing a charter of liberties. They desired it might be the ackno
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
r. Proceedings of the privy council in Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives in Pennsylvania; and in Haz. Hist. Reg. i. 269, 271, 273, 274. More full than Chalmers, 635, 655, &c. Proud. His father, distinguished in English history by the conquest of Jamaica, and by his con- Chap. XVI.} 1680. duct, discretion, and courage, in the signal battle against the Dutch in 1665, had bequeathed to him a claim on the government for sixteen thousand pounds. Massachusetts had bought Maine for a little more than one thousand pounds; then, and long afterwards, colonial property was lightly esteemed; and to the prodigal Charles II., always embarrassed for money, the grant of a province seemed the easiest mode of cancelling the debt. William Penn had powerful friends in North, Halifax, and Sunderland; Penn, in Memoirs of Pennsylvania Historical Society, iu. 244. and a pledge given to his father on his death-bed, obtained for him the assured favor of the duke of York. Susta
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
gent of the duke of York, who still possessed Delaware, exacted customs of the ships ascending to Nen the three lower counties, that is, the state of Delaware, as an appendage to New York; Pennsylvan invested with supreme and undefined power in Delaware, addressed the assembled multitude on governmt Fort Nassau, in New Jersey; and the soil of Delaware was purchased by Godyn, and colonized by De V—on a neck of land between the Schuylkill and Delaware, appointed for a town by the convenience of te birth of popular power in Pennsylvania and Delaware. It remained to dislodge super- Chap. XVI.}VI.} 1685. Oct. 17. Nov. 7. that the tract of Delaware did not constitute a part of Maryland. The pined to be settled; and the present limits of Delaware were established by a compromise. There is nt of Maryland on the side of Pennsylvania and Delaware. In 1763, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, s turned to the New World. Pennsylvania, arid Delaware, and West New Jersey, and now Rhode Island, a[1 more...]
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cline of life, the language of his heart was still the same. If, in the relation between 1710 us, he writes in his old age, the people want of me any thing that would make them happier, I should readily grant it. Watson, 29. Proud, II. 45. When Peter, the great Russian reformer, attended in England a meeting of Quakers, the semibarbarous philanthropist could not but exclaim, How happy must be a community instituted on their principles! Beautiful! said the philosophic Frederic of Prussia, when, a hundred years later, he read the account of the government of Pennsylvania; it is perfect, if it can endure. Herder, XIII. 116. To the charter which Locke invented for Carolina, the palatines voted an immutable immortality; and it never gained more than a short, partial existence: to the people of his province Penn left it free to subvert or alter the frame of government; and its essential principles remain to this day without change. Such was the birth of popular power in Pe
Long Island City (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
seemed a harbinger of a golden age. From Chester, tradition describes the journey of Penn to have been continued with a few friends in an open boat, in the earliest days of November, to the Chap XVI.} 1682 Nov. Dec. beautiful bank, fringed with pine-trees, on which the city of Philadelphia was soon to rise. In the following weeks, Penn visited West and East 1682 1683 New Jersey, New York, the metropolis of his neighbor proprietary, the duke of York, and, after meeting Friends on Long Island, he returned to the banks of the Delaware. Penn's Letter. To this period Duponceau and Fisher, 57. belongs his first grand treaty with the Indians. Beneath a large elm-tree at Shakamaxon, on the northern edge of Philadelphia, On the place, Vaux, Peters, Conyngham, in Penn. Mem. 1. William Penn, surrounded by a few friends, in the habiliments of peace, met the numerous delegation of the Lenni Lenape tribes. The great treaty was not for the purchase of lands, but, confirming
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