The San Francisco call., 1904-08-21

leg.
Maybe because Of the element OF the
OBVIOUSLY ridiculous which made itself
manifest so many times, the authors
account Of the Swedish settlements in
the Delaware country is better reading.
TO Captain David Pieters de Vries Of
Hoorn, worthy old sea dog, be sll
honor for that his shipload of Swedes
was successfully discharged on a
delaware shore in April, 1881, and the
little State-to-be was thus born. Then
came more Swedes and some protests
from the Dutch and from the English,
for the hardy Norsks were settled upon
land everybody claimed and nobody
owned Then came troubles. Doughty
old Governor Printz fired a shot at q
vessel load Of New England Yankees
and then, by way of making amends.
charged them forty shillings-the price
Of the shot. Next Moens king, com
mander Of a Swedish fort led an army
Of eight men against Commissary
Hudde, the Dutchman, and cut down
y
Rysingh, new Governor OF New
Sweden, and signaIizes his advent by
capturing a fort held by seven sol
diers. This story of the Swedes in
Delaware is brave reading.
After a review of the events leading
up to the occupation of New Amster-
dam by the English, the author takes
the reader over the wider field of
colonization and furnishes a study of
the migration Of the oppressed" by
showing the sources, the extent and
the distribution of the many immi-
grants which persecution had driven
to the shores Of the new world. In
this study we have succinct review
Of the conditions that operated to
bring about the self-exile of these peo-
pie, and we are enabled to understand
their peculiar dispositions in the face
Of their new environments, and so are
better fitted to comprehend the parts
they played in the upbuilding Of the
nation among whose pioneers they
were. The Walloons, the Puritans, the
Huguenots, the Quakers, the Mennon-
ties, the Lutherans, the Jews, the
Waldenses. the Labadists, the Roman
Catholics, the Palatines, the Mora
vians, the Tunkers, all escaped from
the terrors Of European persecution.
and found in the early colonies of the
Middle States and Maryland a refuge
from oppression and in general an un
fettered liberty to work out their own
success, while they enjoyed that lib
erty Of conscience that had been de-
MED them in their native lands. The
events involved in these migrations are
ably outlined in the present work.
A particular phase Of this migration
is treated under the head Lord BaIti-
more's Experiment, 1632-16s5'; this
covers not merely the moving cause of
the establishment of the Maryland
colony, but also the outline story Of
this privileged colony's progress for
over half a century. Both the pro-
prietary and the colonists were placed
under liberal conditions In relation to
the mother country. The early troubles
OF the new colonists with those of Vir-
ginia and the Jealous opposition Of the
latter are followed step by step. The
beginnings of legislative power; the
assertion OF the colonists' right to self
government; the material development
Of the colony; it's administrative regu-
lations: its ecclesiastical matters, and
It's boundary troubles with Virginia and
Pennsylvania are each and all amply
reviewed.
Under the caption "Penn's Holy Ex-
pertinent" Jones gives detailed ac-
count Of the founding Of Pennsylvania,
paying especial attention to the nature
Of the colony's constitution and Its
many impracticabilities born OF the
founders religious and social beliefs.
Returning to the case of affairs after
the dethronement Of the Stuarts in
England, the peaceable characteristics
that are usually attributed to the Qua
ker colony are not in very strong evil
dence as the author traces the pro-
ceedings of its Assembly in its relation
to the proprietary and its governor
OF course the disputes were in no small
degree based upon dislike Of the mill
tary measures required, but there was
also the strong antipathy to expendi-
ture for government, in spite Of the
material prosperity OF the people. With
the breaking Of the sentimental ties
that bound the people to the founder,
there was greater need for discretion in
the choice Of the proprietary's gov
ernor, and in Keith an excellent repre-
sentative was found to maintain har-
mony. The course of the financial poll