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again and again to odd Bailey" for
biasphemy and heresy
| But as years passed he became thor
cughly imbued with the idea of form
| irg a free colony where those who
shared his views OF government and
the. religious feeling OF his time and
sect might work and worship unmo-
! ICsted- In due time the opportunity
came and il was then Penn's pleasant
privilege. IS trustee for others findf1-
Cially interested, to launch his holy
experiment" by the writing of the
splendid frame OF government for the
colony Of West New Jersey-a frame
which was put in successful operation
by friends who, thee will recall, sailed
from London in the good ship Kent in
1876.
The success Of this great expert
meHt in government encouraged Will
am Penn 10 undertake another on a
more elaborate scale By this time
he had succeeded TO his fathers am
PIE estates and among ether things to
claim against the crown of England
Of debt of sixteen thousand pounds
His mind now fastened on the hope
OF an adjustment and in 1850 he ap-
piled for lands in the new world. In
settlement of this debt he offered to
accept a stretch Of desert lying back
ward toward the unknown west be-
yond the Delaware. This province was
vast wilderness then, nearly three
hundred miles in length by half as
many in width and encompassed no
less than forty-seyeR thousand square
sail hn
area OF England! ....
II was hither he would lead his fol-
levers to found in that wilderness "a
Free Colony for all nations"-an or
iginaI and august conception-one
thee will agree that was fit TO keep
bis name forever in the memories of
Ell mankind. .,-"
On the second month, twenty fourth
day, 1851, King Charles set his sigma
ture to a document that made Friend
William Penn owner of this vast land
And so, my hearers, Pennsylvania
came to be. IL was called Penn" by
order of the king out of respect to
Admiral Pennsylvania" at the sug-
gestion of the founder owing to the
vast forests in the new land. 1t was
a land of many rivers and OF splendid
mountains, peopled with naked saw
ages. A land with oak and pine and
Cedar-a vast forest where wild
myrtle filed the air with fragrance
A land where wild game did then
abound; where .partridges and pigeons
voiced their cries: where streams
swarmed with perch and trout and
shad; where wild fruit did then -four
ish everywhere and virgin flowers
spread each year to charm the eye
Now not lightly nor hastily do men
uproot themselves from settled es-
tates. to embark on life anew. Yet
years of insult and wrong to the
friends and tn. followers of Penn had
sufficed to loosen his company Of
followers from the tenacious hold on
the soil which had been plowed and
reaped for centuries by their Saxon
fathers. When endurance was at
length exhausted they were ready to-
than in anger-quitting the ports they
were never more &c behold again with
blessings on their lips.
With the promise of the new colony
all were alive with hope for brighter
future in the new Arcadia overseas. 3
Penn pressed forward his prepare
tons for the voyage with wisdom and
with zeal. Men Of parts imbued with
deep religious feryer readily joined in
the plan of colonization. Friend Will
liam Bradford, printer, agreed to go
out with his presses, Wallis, a IA
nous mathematician, suggested how
Penn might extend the domain of sci
ence. Statesmen were at fault as to
the geography Of America; its natural
history was hardly better known to-
scholars. Our worthy leader agreed
to make and transmit TO England OBJ
seryations of scientific interest, and
the Royal Society, then recently
founded, elected him a member. The
good ship Welcome, which was to
take him and his company out to
America, was already lying at the
Downs. 1t was staunch and goodlyj
ship of three hundred tons burden.
Z On deck a hundred pale and anxious
faces gatheredi it was getting deep
INTO the autumn and winters voy-
age, thee will agree. was a thing to-
be regarded with alarm. The voyage
might last six to fourteen weeks, ac-
'cording to the wind and weather, and
every man had to be provisioned for
a longer term, for II is not TO be sup
posed that even friends going out to
found free state denied themselves
the consolation Of meat and drink.
Imagine a hundred ifnmigrantc so
furnished, the grunting of hogs, the
growing OF fowls. the bah-ing of sheep,
the Cabling of ducks, the litter Of
bags and boxes, the rolling OF barrels,
the shouts of the sailors, the tear
strained anxious faces, of the men and
the women about to try new world
imagine all this if thee can, my
friends, and thee has a picture Of the
cid ship Welcome as she lay Off Deal
on the first day. seventh month, 1852,
waiting the arrival of Governor Fem.
That day did the Welcome weigh
anchor at Deal and passed the Fore
land with a light breeze Unhappiiy, I
yet within Gods providence, no doubt,
they shipped case of smallpox be-
fore leaving land. At first the mala.
dy was mild and so they continued
steadily on the journey: but before
they reached the middle of the At.