Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-08
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From the Salem Obssrvsc. q
A REVIEW OTTHE PAST FROM fuI oUAK.-
ER Standpoint.
Continued from Yesterday

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cd on bis friend. a. to cause perfect silence
for while. When now In his turn con-
demned to die, he said, The viii Of the
Lord be done. If you have power 10 tAke
my life from me, the which I question,
belieue you shall never more take Quakerss
lives from, them. Note my sOor6s."if8 1ewf
Just at this crisis the rulers of Aassachu-
sets received tidings from England which
caused . sudden change in their condu0e.
for on the day preceding that which had
been fixed on for the execution Of Wen-y
lock Christison, he had twenty-seven other
Friends were set at liberty; and after TIVE
of them had been whipped through the
town they were taken by . body Of col.
diers out iof the Jurisdiction. Would it
not be false refinement Of feeling 70 b
unwilling to contemplate tie snterisgs
which, not young and strong men only,
but tender and delicate women were enc
bled to endure for Christi Moreover, y
there not instruction for us In this - q d.
"Mournful record of an earlisr age.
That pale and half effaced lies hidden ayay
Beneath the frcsher writing Of to-day." ;" fl3 b
Thou shalt lose they life and and Il, aiii
Thou shalt boldly cast it forth; H.
And then back again receiving,
Know it in it's endless worth"
And here close my recital of Puritan
barbarities. a designation which in truth
and Justice feel to apply-a record Of
cruelty which for atrocity has probably
never been exceeded on the American con-
tinent; except possibly in tho cases Of An
Jacksonville horrors during the hate wax.
and the brutal practices Of slave masters
under the old slave-holding oligarchy.
Compare now for moment the early
days of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
Here was strife. contention and constant
alright from Indiana alarms there, Penn
arrived in 1852 and made his famous tres
ty with Indians. in the which they pledged
themselves in their strong. quaint Ian
guage "to live in love with Onas, (Penn)
and his children as long as the sun and
moon shall endure" Tquote from Psnn's
biography: when this report reached
Europe most Of her politicians awaited
with sneering'smiles the consumhation they
expected to follow. Going among the
cruel Indian savages without arms, and
pledging themselves never to use violence
towards them! What folly! What mad
ness" But they waited and watched long
and still no violence or bloodshed ensusd.
Whilst the surrounding colonists were ever
and anon at war with the Indians and the
scalping; knife and tomahawk brought
death and terror to many hearth. the
Quakers of Pennsylvania and all their pos
sessions remained uninjured.
Safe that quiet Eden lay,
When the war whoop stirred the land;
Thence the Indian turned away ~ HN4
From their homes bis bloody hand.
"He remembered the treaty With the
sons of Onas and kept it inviolate." The
Friends of Pennsylvania on their side sct-
ed trutbfully and honestly towards the red
men; and the Indian people, even when
at war with other English colonies, and
when the original parties to the treaty had
died off, regarded the lives and property
of the children of Onas as sacred. Such
was the treaty of peace and amity on which
Voltaire remarked that ''it was the only
one ever made without an oath. and the
only one that never was broken"
"The Quaker of the olden timel
So calm, and firm. and true,
Unspotted by its wrong and crime,
He walked the dark earth threugh; .,, -
The lust of power, the love Of gain,
The thousand lures Of sin
Around him had no power to stain
The purity within.
With that deep insight which detects s
All great things in the small,
And knows how each mans life affects
The spiritual life of all,
He walked by faith and not BY sight,
BY love and not by law;
The presence of the wrong or right,
He rather felt than saw.
He felt that wrong with wrong partakes,
That nothing stands alone,
That whose gives the motive makes
His brothers sin his own;
And, pausing not for doubtful choice
OF evils great or small,
He listened to that inward voice
Which calls away from all.
Oh spirit of that early day,
| SO pure and strong and true,
Be with US in the narrow way
Our faithful fathers knew;
Give strength the evil to forsake,
The cross of Truth to bear,
And love and reverent fear to make
Our daily lives prayer"
Had Gov. Endeott listened rs attentive
| ly TO the Voice of Eternal Truth, Justice
and Mercy within his breast, and obeyed
this light of Christ in the soul, a. faith
| fully as did William Penn In Pennsylvania,
our New England colony would have been
spared those blood stains upon her name
and her fame-the massacre of Indian
tribes. and the persecution of Quaker and
Baptist settlers. Penn came as an ambas-
sador of the Prince Of Peace, and proved
himself by his deeds to be one. Endicott.
seeking to "serve two masters. .--"Gsdando
Mammon," at times allowed the love Of
fame and earthly power to dim and utterly
obscure his spiritual vision. So this same
determination to erect State, to found ,
nation, at any cost, led on step BY step to
the perpetraiion of that national crime, tho
War of the American Revolution. which
was deliberate setting aside ofthe Gospel
command. .-'But say unto you that 70 re-
sist not evil; but whososver shall smite
thee on thy right cheek, turn to him tAs
other also" And likewise that solemn ad-
monition of our Lord My kingdom 10
not of this world. If my kingdom were
Of this world, then would my SERVANTS
fght."-A crime as clearly the forsrunnsr
of our national woes, as that pain and
suffering are sure to follow in the trais Il