Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-11-19
Charles II and VIM, Penn.

leave of the king, and the following conye
sation occurred:
WELL friend William" said Charles. e
have sold you noble province in Mort
America; but still suppose you have n
thoughts Of going thither yourself.o
Yes, have" replied William, and ar
just come to bid thee farewello
What, venture yourself among tn
savages OF North America Why man wha
security have you that you will not be il
their war kettle in two hours after settin,
foot on their shores?
"The best security in the world" reptile,
Penn.
III doubt that, friend William, have n,
idea OF any security against those canibals
but IN regiment of good soldiers with the
muskets and bayonets. And mind tell yo,
beforehand, that with all my good will 70
you and your family, to whom | am unde
obligation, | will not send a single soIdie
with you"
-" | want none of thy soldiers" answered
William, III depend on something better
than thy soldiers"
The king wished to know what that was
"Why depend on themseves-on thei,
moral sense, and on that grace of God
which bringeth salvation, and which hath
appeared unto all men,"
* | fear, friend William, that that grace
has never appeared to the Indians Of North
America"
"Why not to them as we'll as to all others 2;
-" 1t II had appeared to them;" said the
king, they would hardly have treate my
subjects SO barbarousIy as they have done''
"That is no proof of the contrary, friend
CHARLES. Thy subjects were the agressors
When thy subjects first went to North
America, they found these people the fondest
and the kindest creatures in the world
Every day they would watch for them to
come ashore, and hasten to meet them, and
feed them on their best fish and venison, and
corn, which was all they had In return for
this hospitality of the sarages as we call
them, thy subjects, termed Christians. seized
on their country and rich hunting grounds
for farms for themselves. Now, is il to be
wondered at that these much injured people
should have been driven to desperation by
such injustice, and that, burning with re-
venge, they should have committed some
excuses"
well then, friend William, hope you
will not complain when they come TO treat
you IN the same manner"
~ am not afraid of it," said Penn.
"Aye, how will you avoid it. You mean
to get their hunting grounds too, suppose 2"
Eyes but not by driving these poor people
away from them"
"No indeed ! how then will you get their
lands?"
~ mean to buy their lands of them.o
Buy their lands of them! why man you
have already bought them of me'
ayes, ] know have, and al dear rate
too, but did it only to get thy goodwill.
not that | thought thou hads, any right to
their lands =;
"Zounds man mo right to their lands"
No, friend Charles, no right at all. What
right hast thou to their lands :"
"Why, the right of discovery: the right
which the Pope and all Christian Kings have
agreed TO give one another"
The right of discovery! a strange kind
Of right indeed. Now, suppose friend
Charles, some canoe load Of Indians, cross
ing the sea, and discovering thy Island of
Great Britain, were to claim it as their own,
and set it up for sale over thy head, what
wouIdst thou think Of it 2" ~
"Why-why-why," replied Charles, ~
must confess, should think it great piece
Of impulence in them" "
"Well, then, how canst thou, as christian.
and Christian Prince too, do that which
thou so utterly condemest in those people
thou callest sauages? Yes, friend Charles.
and suppose again that these Indians, on thy
refusal TO give up the Island Of Great
Britain, were to make war on thee and hav-
ing weapons more destructive than thine.
were to destroy many of thy subjects and to
hive the rest away, wouldest thou not think
t horribly cruel q .1
The King asserting to this with strong
marks Of conviction. William proceeded
=" Well, then friend Charles, how can I,
who call myself Cristian, do what should
ibhor even in hea.hens! No, will not do
i. But will buy the right of the proper
owners, even of the indians themselves
By SO doing shall initiate God himself in
his justice and mercy, and thereby insure
lis blessing on my colony, if should ever
i've to plant one in North America
BEAUTY OF SMALL FoREHEADs IN Women.
The admiration Of large foreheads in wo-
men is depravity of modern times and is
yet, and ever will be, confnded to few
'ectarians in taste. The notwithstanding
perhaps on the one side. but the safe and
gentle sile-sighed for narrow and low FORE
heads. l cannot recol!ect in any ancient
writer passage in praise of large fore
leadln a woman. Horace calls Lycoris
llIustrious " for her slender forehead :-
Lasignen tenui troate Lyco,da
Cyvi torret amor.
who has noticed this passage in
MS work on Ancient Art,n tells US that the
Creek women, where the real beauty was
gave the appearance Of loneliness
Q their tofeheads by fastening band below
heir hair; and that the beautiful women oil
,ircassia produce the Same effect by an in
yenions manner in combing down their
ocks. Pe,ronius, in his exquisite piece Of
,irce-in which he has assembled so many
POINTS of high beauty-the naturally curled
lair flowing down on her shoulders. and her
yebrows almost joined-does not forge, to
escribe the forehead as very small.n
rom passage in Montaigne, founded no
oubt on the relations Of travellers, it ap-
'ears that the charm of low foreheads is
understood by the women Of Mexico; and
hat in order to produce this appearance,
hey make use Of every art to make the hair
row down on their brows.
The oldest seeming commentator of a
arge forehead that I have met with, occurs
the Conzone Of Dante, 10 miro crespi
gil bloudi capegli,n where he gives de-