. soccasion that the grand sachem of this great confederacy made that noble,and generous, and touching response, so different from the spirit of revengegenerally attributed to the Indian character. It is a notable example of lovethat begets love, and of the mild answer that turneth away wrath. He said : The great king of the Five Nations is sorry for the death of the Indianthat was killed, for he was of his own flesh and blood. He believes that theGovernor is also sorry ; but, now that it is done, there is no help for it, andhe desir
. soccasion that the grand sachem of this great confederacy made that noble,and generous, and touching response, so different from the spirit of revengegenerally attributed to the Indian character. It is a notable example of lovethat begets love, and of the mild answer that turneth away wrath. He said : The great king of the Five Nations is sorry for the death of the Indianthat was killed, for he was of his own flesh and blood. He believes that theGovernor is also sorry ; but, now that it is done, there is no help for it, andhe desires that Cartlidge [the murderer] may not be put to death, nor that heshould be spared for a time, and afterward executed ; one life is enough to belost; there should not two die. The Kings heart is good to the Governor andall the English. Though Gov. Keith, during the early part of his term, pursued a pacificpolicy, yet the interminable quarrels which had been kept up between the As-sembly and Council during previous administrations, at length broke out with. 1 : ^-*-C- C^Aa^^J^ HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA. 81 more virulence than ever, and he who in the first flush of power had declaredThat he should pass no laws, nor transact anything of moment relating tothe public affairs without the advice and approbation of the Council, took itupon himself finally to act independently of the Council, and even went sofar as to dismiss the able and trusted representative of the proprietary inter-ests, James Logan, President of the Council and Secretary of the Province,from the duties of his high office, and even refused the request of HannahPenn, the real Governor of the province, to re-instate him. This unwarranta-ble conduct cost him his dismissal from office in July, 1726. Why he shouldhave assumed so headstrong and unwarrantable a course, who had promised atthe first so mild and considerate a policy, it is difficult to understand, unless itbe the fact that he found that the Council was block
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