United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . eat-souled proprietor sought a grander and morebeautiful domain. His petition was heard with favor and the charter ofPennsylvania granted by King Charles. Colonists came teeming; andnow the Quaker king himself, without pomp or parade, without the dis-charge of cannon or vainglorious ceremony, was come to New Castle tofound a government on the basis of fraternity and peace. It was fittingthat he should call the new republic a holy experiment. As s
United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . eat-souled proprietor sought a grander and morebeautiful domain. His petition was heard with favor and the charter ofPennsylvania granted by King Charles. Colonists came teeming; andnow the Quaker king himself, without pomp or parade, without the dis-charge of cannon or vainglorious ceremony, was come to New Castle tofound a government on the basis of fraternity and peace. It was fittingthat he should call the new republic a holy experiment. As soon as the landing was effected, Penn delivered an affectionateand cheerful address to the crowd of Swedes, Dutch and English whocame to greet him. His former pledges of a liberal and just governmentwere publicly renewed, and the people were exhorted to sobriety andhonesty. From New Castle the governor ascended the Delaware to Ches-ter ; passed the site of Philadelphia; visited the settlements of West NewJersey; and thence traversed East Jersey to Long Island and New spending some time at the capital of his friend, the duke of York,. WILLIAM PENN. 212 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. and speaking words of cheer to the Quakers about Brooklyn, he returnedto his own province and began his duties as chief magistrate. Markharn, the deputy-governor, had been instructed to establishfraternal relations with the Indians. Before Penns arrival treaties hadbeen made, lands purchased, and pledges of friendship given between theFriends and the Red men. Now a great conference was appointed with thenative chiefs. All the sachems of the Lenni Lenapes and other neighbor-ing tribes were invited to assemble. The council was held on the banksof the Delaware under the open sky. Penn, accompanied by a few un-armed friends, clad in the simple garb of the Quakers, came to the ap-pointed spot and took his station under a venerable elm, now leafless; forit was winter. The chieftains, also unarmed
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