Essentials of United States history . )ersons in author-ity, not even ex-cepting the held the doc-trine that eachmans Hfe shouldbe guided by aninner light. A few of these Friends were led into many ex-travagant and foolish deeds. The majority, however, weresincere, quiet, and peace-loving people, who could not be wonwith gifts, honors, offices, or Quakers found their way to America, where they. The Middle Colonies. 62 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY received anything but a cordial welcome. Several colonies,indeed, passed laws which made it a crime for captains togive t
Essentials of United States history . )ersons in author-ity, not even ex-cepting the held the doc-trine that eachmans Hfe shouldbe guided by aninner light. A few of these Friends were led into many ex-travagant and foolish deeds. The majority, however, weresincere, quiet, and peace-loving people, who could not be wonwith gifts, honors, offices, or Quakers found their way to America, where they. The Middle Colonies. 62 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY received anything but a cordial welcome. Several colonies,indeed, passed laws which made it a crime for captains togive the members of this new sect passage in their were banished, flogged, imprisoned; but persecutionNewEng- ^^^ made them more zealous, and they returnedland perse- after banishment only to receive severer punish-cuted the ment. The Puritan rulers of Massachusetts wereVua ers. jj^Qj-g harsh in their treatment of the Quakers thanthose of any other colony and hanged four of them on BostonCommon. But the people of the Bay Colony, as a whole, werenot in sympathy with such extreme measures and the persecu-tion gradually died out as the spirit of libert}^ increased. 69. William Penn. — The cause of the much-abused Quak-ers was warmly taken up by William Penn, who had becomea Friend while at college. His father, an English admiraland a stanch friend of the Duke of York, remonstratedwith his son in vain, p
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