A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . any difference should happen between them, it mightbe adjusted by an equal number of men chosen on both sides. The posi-tion selected by these emigrants for their abode, was immediately abovethe confluence of the Schuylkill and Delaware. In the following April,P
A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . any difference should happen between them, it mightbe adjusted by an equal number of men chosen on both sides. The posi-tion selected by these emigrants for their abode, was immediately abovethe confluence of the Schuylkill and Delaware. In the following April,Penn published the frame of government for Pennsylvania. The chiefintention of this famous charter was declared to be, for the support ofpower in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from theabuse of power. For, liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedi-ence without liberty is slavery. The first page in the annals of Pennsylvania is one of the brightest inthe history of mankind, recording an event not more to the credit of thewise and benevolent legislator through whose agency it happened, thanhonorable to humanity itself. At a spot which is now the site of one ofthe suburbs of Philadelphia, the Indian sachems, at the head of their as-sembled warriors, awaited in arms the approach of the Quaker Penns Treaty. Penn, distinguished from his followers only by a sash of blue silk, andholding in his hand a roll of parchment that contained the confirmation ofthe treaty, arrived, at the head of an unarmed train, carrying various arti-cles of merchandise, which, on their approach to the sachems, were spreadon the ground. He addressed the natives through an interpreter, assuringthem of his friendly and peaceable intentions ; and certainly the absenceof all warlike weapons was a better attestation of his sincerity than a thou-sand oaths. The conditions of the proposed purchase were then read;and he delivered to the sachems not only the stipulated price, b
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