Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-06-22
CLEARFIELD, Pa, WEDNESDAY, JUNE %, 1881

tho consent of the people, no property
restriction on voting, no class monopo
ly of office, no trial without a jury,
fines to be moderate, prisons to be
workhouses, children to be educated
to useful trades, and worship to be free
He directed the institution of the
Friends School, at Philadelphia, which
may exist today. He negotiated with
the Indians under the elm at Shacka.
maxon-the place of kings-that rea.
ty of concord (which was never bro.
ken" He declined large sum OF
money for the exclusive Indian trade,
lest he should dofile his trust He re.
fused the duties offered him upon Ger.
tain imports and exports. Her released
certain quitrents for the public good.
He spared the assassin whom he dis.
armed in the streets of Paris, He re.
turned soft answer 10 Richard Bax-
ter. His principles stood the test Of
trial. He was deceived by exorbitaut
charges of his agents until the accu-
mulated sum placed the whole prov.
ince under mortgage. He was ira
duced by scheming men, called a Jesuit,
because he asserted the right of the
Papist to indulgence; called a courtier
because his claims for clemency were
needed in the palace accused OF trea.
son to King William because he had
been grateful to King James deprived
for awhile Of his Government; despoil.
cd of his lawful income reduced to n
bare subsistence imprisoned by those
he served defeated in his suit by Lord
Baltimore about the boundary line,
which, century later, caused the sur.
vey of Mason and Dixon's subjected
to afiliction and disappointment. Yet,
he left memory which tho criticism
of tho most popular historian of the
age has failed to injure. He left a
monument more significant than statue
or column, pyramid or mausoleum.
1t is hore-this vast organization Of
wealth and peoplo-this heritage of
liberty and law, with its prestige of
past renown, and its destiny OF con-
stantly unfolding grandeur.
Penn's philosophy, opinions, and
conduct were all consistent What
sublimity of purpose, what simplicity
of manner what energy and wisdom,
what kindness of heart did he exhibit
Studious, courageous, pious, patient
under persecution, meek in authority,
eloquent in expression, profound in
learning, broad in thought-preferring
duty TO ambition, suffering to unfaith-
fulness, reproach to rosentmont-as
gentleman, scholar, preacher, and leg
islator, his character seems unsurpassed,
And now we are asked to share,
without expense, with the consent OF
his descendants, IN bringing hither his
remains Surely this is an opportune
and becoming proposition. II seems
fit that here, where his name is placed, |
where his fame eliminated, where he |
loved to dwell and hoped to die here,
amidst the scene of his labors and the |
fruits Of his genius and dust of bis
friends that his bones should be buried |
and rest forever. They will honor the
State, they will hallow the son, they
will attest his history, they will show
our recognition of a universal sense of
propriety and duty.
1t is natural that one should repose
at last upon favored or familiar ground.
So Israel's children took his body with
a great company Of chariots and horse.
men to IMachpelah's cave, amongst
those to whom his name was given.
And so they conveyed Joseph, embalm.
cd and in his coffin, through all the
Of the wilderness to the
country promised to his people. And
the sons of the slain Theses are said
to have borne him in royal state, over
the Egean waves, to the city of Miner.
va, which he served or saved. And |
tho dead Napoleon was restored with
universal welcome from his exile tomb
to that glory-enamoured France"which
he had loved so we'll" Surely this
Commonwealth cannot choose but to
receive and reverently keep
the ashes of William Penn.