New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-03-20
a.ol.tical Distorp. No XIII.
PREPARED for The rribune By EDWIN wnLlisd''

and public benefactor was sketched by our ieAo",
citizen, Gulian C. Verplsnck, ESQ., IN h's osoa'
felieitous and elsquen, style, IN ah A"e w..
fore The New.Yors Historical Society In 1918. we
make the following extracts:
AZ, was after long and rigid discipline OF ad-
yersity and oppression, when his youthful pIesu,np
,;on had subsidized and his enthusiastic zeai h'1
rpened into wise and practical benevoIence' '..a'
Penn became the founder of that Comrsoa"eai'n
which SO goriously perpetuates bis nafAe' n-s
dom and his virtues-a mere aagninceh' 'AN
inr monument than conqueror or oesPol e'ei
reared.
.. Mo,,oso,.,, with his usual brilliant and am
bilious originality, has styled rem 'he h'oaefn
Ivc,rros. Paradoxcal as this strange associa-
,;o, of names may at first appear, there is one
,,,.l cd point of resemblance between the Spartan
ard the Pennsylvanian legisiator-w;deiy they
differed in the character of their institutions and
the ultimate ends Of their ambition
alt is the pecuiar glory of these two, above all
the other legislators of mankind to have possessed
that self-balanced and confident energy Of mind
which could enable them to disregard all consid-
eratsns of Temporary expedency and private in
,erest, and to make every part of their system mar
monte in perfect unison with those leading prin-
ciples which were to pervade, animate and govern
every portion of the State.
Never was there undertaken more sublime
political enterprise than that of the founder OF
Pennsylvania. Never was there q legislation more
boldly marked with that unity of intention which
IS the mos, peculiar and majestic feature of all
original conception. His system of virtuous poll
tics was reared upon bcnevolence justice and lib
ertv. With these objects he began, and with these
he ended.
"At the same time, well Judging I" that govern
uen.s rather depend upon men, than men upon
governments" hes rested his sole reliance upon
public morals and education for the preservation
of public liberty.
alt is true that some of PENIS plans of peaceful
legislation have been found napplicable to the &C.
tual state and condition of mankind. But hisvery
failures were glorious, for they arose chiefly from
too sanguiuc expectation Of the mental and moral
Improvement of the human race, and too hasty
anticipatons of universal holiness and universal
peace an illusion fair and lovely and nearly
allied to TRUTH that it sheds ustre every
with which it may be connected, and can even lend
momen,ary dignity and interest to the wild specu-
lations Of Goodwin and Condorcet."
DgLAwARE-The territory now known as the |
State of Delaware belonged to the country origl-
nay claimed by the Dutch, rs part of New Meth
erlands. The precise time when the first settle
nent was made within the bounds of this territory
has been matter of dispute. An ancient Dutch
document states that previous to 1923 colony
was planted on the western shore of the Delaware,
within the mouth Of the South Cape, at place
called Hoarkill, (Lewistown) fort was erect
ed tne1e nut afterwdrd abandoned and the people |
murdered by the Indians. Settlements were after
ward made by the Dutch on the eastern shore
New Jersey and the Bay and River were occa-
sioHetly visited by them for purposes of trade.
The most interesting part of the early history Of !
Delaware relates to the colony Of Swedes which
arrived on the banks of the river and settled In
1855 II has been generally supposed and stated
by Historians, that the Swedes came over to Ame-
RIGA in 1851, but the researches of hlr. Mouton
and Others chow that their first settlement in Del
aware was in 1888. The King of Sweden, Gusa-
yus Adophus, few years previous to his death,
which happened in 1852, encouraged the torma- |
merchants joined, for the purposes of trade and
colonization under the name of the South Com
pany. Az expedition was fitted out in Sweden,ln
the succeeding reign, in 1857, under the superln-
tendence of Peter Minuit, Dutchman, who had
been Governor of ew-York, and many settlers
embarked for the River Delaware, where they
safely arrived, and having opened communications
with the Indians they purchased OF them the right
OF the soil and commenced the town OF ChfaS-
tina, so called in honor of the Queen of Sweden
The Dutch Governor of New-York, kieft, remon-
strated with the Swedes against what he consider
ed as an intrusion upon the Dutch territory. Swe'
dish writer's, however, have stated that the right
this as it may, the colony was planted by the
Swedes and called New Sweden. In 1910, many
emigran,s with cattle and implements of hus-
bandry came over from Sweden to the new colo.
nv, and settlements were formed on both sides OF
the Delaware. These establishments were de-
signed as the beginning of an extensive system of
colonization then contemplated by the patrons OF
the scheme in Swedeland. The association which
managed tho concerns was called the Navigation
Company, but the colony was under the protection
of the Crown Of Sweden. John Printz was the
first Governor appointed by the Queen and he WINS
succeeded by John Papegoya, and the latter by
John Risingh During the government of the
Swedes, many adventurers continued to arrive
from Sweden, who devoted themselves to agricu
1ure, and proved remarkably industrious, moral
and entcvprisins class of settlers But this inter