Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-08-27
" Not a drop of Quaker blood was ever
shed by an Indian"

Such is the expression of the historian as
he finishes up the early history of Pennsylva-
MIA; and the fact speaks a whole volume IN
favor of the cause Of Peace. None can re-
fleet Without painful feelings on the wars of
the American colonies, which have resulted
in such a sad determination of the aboriginal
lords of the soil; none whose feelings do not
recoil at the thought Of so much Indian blood
shed in the land of their birth. How have
the countless Indian tribes faded away, in all
their power and glory, before the onward
tread of the white man. until only a sad relic
of them remains. The reader of our country's
early history-wearied, and saddened and
sickened with almost constant hostilities and
wars and bloodshed, between the aboligines
and the early settlers of what are now Fir-
ginia, the New England States, the Carroll
mas, &c.-is most amply relieved on turning
to the history Of the land of William Penn.
Instead of force and arms on the one hand,
and the tomahawk and scaIping-krife on the
other, we behold Penn without arms, and in
the dress of Peace and the calumet; and as
a consequence naturally to be expected, per-
feet peace and friendship existed, in the stead
of ambushes, massacres and burnings. Be-
meath a large elm-tree, says Bancroft, Will
liam Penn, surrounded by a few friends, in
the habiliments Of Peace, met the numerous
delegates of the Lenni and Lenape tribes
We meet''-such were the words of Penn
-" on the broad pathway of good faith and
good will no advantage shall be taken on
either side, but all shall he openness and love.
| will not call you children, for parents some
times chide their children too severely nor
brothers only, for brothers differ. The friend
ship between me and you ] will not compare
to a chain, for that the rains might rust, and
the falling tree might break. We are the
same as if one mans body were 10 be divi.
ded into two parts; we are all one flesh and
one blood" The children of the forest were
touched by the sacred doctrine, and renounc'
Ell their guile and their revenge. They re-
eeived the presents of Penn in sincerity, and
with hearty friendship, they gave the belt Of
wampum. We will live" said they, " in
love with William Penn and his Children
as long as the moon and the sun shall endure
And the historian adds, mot a drop of Qua
ker blood was ever shed by an Indian.
What a contrast between the principles o
Peace and the principles Of War, do thes
extracts present. If the founder of Pennsyl
vania, panoplied in the principles of peac
only, single handed almost, could be safe
and his colony so abundantly prosper, in III
midst of powerful tribes of savage Indians
WHAT ntCtSSllJ VI wal a w ulhSi VIZ
or circumstances To this may be addel
another equally interesting tact-That in al
+ ter wars in which Indians were engaged,
the enemy could gain shelter in IA Quake
house, he was as safe there, as the ancier
Greeks when they sheltered themselves j
u the temples Of their gods-the Indian woul
f not harm his enemy who had fled to a Qu5
ker family for protection. Had all our cole
MES settled on the principles of Peace, as di
> that of William Penn, no one can tell ho'
greatly it would have tended to ~civilize an
= ~evangelize the tribes of the American lndiar
: At least none can dwell on this contrast will
out becoming more in love with those glor
y Gus principles of Peace taught US in the go
pei Of Jesus Christ, and lifting his heart
. prayer to the God of nations, that wars ma
q cease to the end Of the world.-HOSe Of Ma
on.
k A Warrior's opinion Of his own Laureh.-
!, At a dinner recently given to Sir Harry SmiI
the hero of Aliwal, by his former compal
ions in arms, he is reported to have said =
u : He trusted that the peace of Waterloo wou'
continue, for our profession is a damnab
trade, and if it must be that we have to &C
let il be carried on with the utmost mitig
lion Of its horrors