Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-01-23
PHILADELPHIA IN 1904.

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PHILADELPHIA IN 1904.
An extract from brief sketch of the origin and pre-
sent state of the City of Philadelphia, in 804.
Written by a respectable Native thereof
philadelphia is the capital OF Pennsylvania
and the chief city OF the Uaited States, in point
OF size and spendour; though il mus, yield me-
iropoltan precedence TO seat Of government,
removed from the chief resort Of tcealh and popu
'g.ion, the pendulum of national activity, which
mus, long yibra.e between Baltimore, Phla-
delphia, and New York, chain ofcommercial
cities, unparalleled in history, whose vigorous
impulse is already acc, erated by the bold ra-
MITIGATION Of luInpikes * canals.
iladeiphia Is situa ed about 20 degrees
north Of the equator, and rs west Of London;
being in the same parallel OF latitude with
Spain, Italy and Greece; climates, whose hap>
DIV temperature had already indicated for % nm
syIvania milder winter, before The original
frosts of November and December, BY which
the first adventures were some lines frozen up
in the Delaware, mad evidently yielded 10 the
qualifying effects of exposing The surface Of
the earth 10 the rays Of the sun
Its Founder, the bene volenI and pacific VII
LIAM Penn, denomina'eI it PHILADELPHIA, or
the city Of BRoTHERLY LOVE, from town in
ancient Greece, so named IN honour the
fraternal attachment of Auaus and Eumenes;
and afterwards famous IN the CHI istian World,
for one Of the Sevea Churches to which 81.
John addressed his prophetic visions, So SUBJ
timely delivered in the book of Revelations
A name rnrthinks OF suspicious omen: Be-
hold" says tie inspired Apostle, 20 the Angel
OF the chuIch in Philadelphia, Il have set be-
fore thee an open door, and no man can shut
IT," Religious liberty is here chartered
right the policy,as well as the equity, of which,
20 say nothing ofi,s consistency with the spirit
Of that religion which breathes peace on earth,
and good tciH 10 men, is manif 81
PENN had been concerned in the settlement
Of New Jersey, some years before he obtained
from Charles ii. 4 grant of the territory on the
western side ofthe Delaware. The Dutch and
Swrdes were then numerous at Upland (now
Chester) at New Castle, snd at the Herkls
(now Lewis TOWN. and a number Of his breth>
rem in religious profession, had already esta-
blished themselves al ShaCkam LXon, now Ken
sington, a suburb of Philadel2 hia, in the wear
1878, when snip, called the Shield, Of Stock
ton, the FIRST that ever ventured 10 sail ST. high
I'D the river, in acking ran her bowsprit among
the trees which lined the shore where the city
now stands; and the New Corners on board,
bound Tor Burlington; then remarked to each
other, that ii ,ooald be q fine place for to,cn
The royal grant pass d the great seal on he
4th If " arch, 1851, and in August the follow
ing year, the venerable Legislator o. Pennsyl-
yania SET sail from London, in the shi? We'll
come, Capt. Greenway.
The. Proprietor was accompanied by hun
Cred Of his friends and fellow professors, con-
,em2tuously called Quakers, by their naughty
countryn-n, because, in their religious meet
ings, like The fai,hfu of every age, they some
times tr, ~ bed al the word Of God.
A prosperous gale waited the patriar' his OF
Pennsyl, ania, in six weeks to the friendly coast
of America, aud the Proprietary landed at New
Castle, on the Gath Of Oct. under the aeclama-
,ions OF the Dutch Settlers, who accompanied
him TO Upland, the principal Swedish settle
ment. where he sollet ted an assembly OF all
III, Freemen Of the Province, by whom his
Jurisdiction was UNANIMOUSLY recognized and
confirmed.
Inv heres that the Father Of his country
made treaty with the harmless natives, which
was to last in the 6gurative style Of those nerv
Gus Aboriginss S, who have since been so grossly
inexperienced By European Theorists, as long
as tie trees should grow or the pd'ers run A
treaty that " as faithfully observed by both par
ties (let the Potentatrs of Europe blush) thro'
happy period Of eighty successive wears; and
that has since been consigned to historic i'm
mortality by the patriotic pencil OF a descend
an, Of one Of the peaceful Assistants, now the
first Painter of the age.
The Founder Of Pennsylvania was not long
in fixing upon situation that seemsd prepar-
ed by nature, perhaps by Providence, for the
sudden growth Of his future capital The spot
was then covered with timber, its foundation
was a stratum of potter's clay, the ha' bour fur
uished bed Of sand, the nearest hills contain
ed quarries Of stone, The v'cin ty yielded lime
STONE and marble, and the penetra alton OF intel
I;veut Observers, discovered mines OF coal and
eft ha, since been satisfactorily ascertained, thatthe
celebrated Treaty, here spoken OF, VAS mace ksr-
s;notop. North Of Phadeiphs, under ''the neHet-,o