. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. e abolition of negro slavery. In 1688 some of them, who wereliving in Germantown, sent a petition to that effect to the EnglishQuakers, who afterwards adopted the idea and became famous forthe advocacy of it. The petition is full of quaint expressions, es-pecially one paragraph. If once these slaves (wch they say are so wicked and stubborn men) shouldjoint
. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. e abolition of negro slavery. In 1688 some of them, who wereliving in Germantown, sent a petition to that effect to the EnglishQuakers, who afterwards adopted the idea and became famous forthe advocacy of it. The petition is full of quaint expressions, es-pecially one paragraph. If once these slaves (wch they say are so wicked and stubborn men) shouldjoint themselves, fight for their freedom and handel their masters and mastrissestacke the sword a hand & warr against these poor slaves, licke we are able to be-lieve, some will not refuse to doe? Or have these negers not as much right tofight for their freedom, as you have to keep them slaves? Unlike other settlersthe sturdy and thriftyGermans, after fleeingfrom feudal oppressionsand religious intoler-ence, came not only toexercise their desirefor religious liberty, butwith the avowed inten-tion of founding per-manent homes in theforest of the West-After securing an asy-lum in Pennsylvania they, like the Roman Catholics of Maryland,. LORD BALTIMORE PROCLAIMING LIBERTYOF CONSCIENCE. (Old print.) 322 GERMANS. (who received and protected their Christian brethren of everychurch) interfered with none in the exercise of his religious faith,and in all their relations scrupulously observed the virtues of thegolden rule. In repelling- the insinuations and attacks upon the PennsylvaniaGermans, and returning the assault, it is not contended that theGermans, in the concrete, were superior in all respects to the othercolonists. But they were at least the equals of their the Puritan, the Quaker, the Scotch-Irish, the Cavaliernor the German, was singly the depositary of all earthly wisdomand virtues. Neither was faultless nor flawless, nor had the rightto assume an
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