The Washington herald., 1915-04-30

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came. The chief English towns of the
province had stubbornly resisted his
authority until the very eve of the
coming of the Dutch men-of-war
| though he had been, steadfast and had
not ceased to rule in such matters
as he could. or TO press the interests
and the powers of the proprietor. AT
| last documents had come out of Eng
! land which conclusively put an end
| to the claim of the uneasy colonists
| that they had a right to act indeDend-
emily of the proprietor: but they had
hardly reached Carteret before the
| Dutch fleet came in.
| when the Dutch were gone again
! the once discontented towns received
! their English governor back with n
| sort of satisfaction. having been glad
| dencd to see the alien masters go
But there were new difficulties. be-
| cause Edmund AnGros, that stirring
| major of Dragons, was governor of
New York. King Charles made a new
grant of New York to his brother the
| Duke of York in 1874, TO cure any
! doubt the Dutch occupation might be
| thought to have put upon his title:
and the Duke promptly granted East
New Jersey over again to Sir George
Cartcret; but the new grant was not
couChed In the terms of the old left
4 doubt upon the mind of a careful
reader whether il meant to renew
Sir Georges sovereignty or only Sir
Georges ownership as overlord-and
his Grace had explicitly commissioned
AndrOs to be his deputy in the gov
ernment OF New York "and its de-
Tendencies"
Andros understood Carterets new
charter literally. as ii read, and act
ed as if he had been hidden annul
the right of Sir Georges governor to
govern He saw TO IL that the New
Jersey towns should get as little
comfort out of the resumption of
their separate government as possible
At first he Contented himself with COL
leCting customs duties at the New Jer-
Sey ports as well as at New York for
the Dukes revenues; but when Sir
.Gcorge Carteret died, in January, 1850.
he went further. He challenged Philip
tarterets authority outright. accused
him of acting without legal warrant
with the Duke of York's patent, to
tho great disturbance OF his Majesty's
subjects" and. when he would not
yield. seized him. deposed him from
his government by force. and himself
assumed the authority of governor in
the New Jersey towns. The next year,
1851. saw Carteret upheld and REIN
stated and Andros rebuked by official
letters out of England. and the dis
credited soldier went home to give his
account of the affair. East Jersey was
to have quiet again for 4 little under
new proprietors.
The Kings new grants made of New
Jersey. not a single province. as bes
fore, but two distinct provinces. East
Jersey and West Jersey
Both provinces prospered. Many set
tiers preferred the Jerseys to New
York. There was less taxation there
dealings. Saw mills and iron mills
were set up: tar, pitch. and turpen-
tine were shipped in paying quanti-
ties from the pine forests: whales,
caught upon the very coasts yielded
rich supplies of oil and whalebone:
and the Jerseys made ready to be as
forward as any other colony in growth
and self-support
The democratic government of West
Jersey, the humane clemency of its
laws. the full freedom OF religious be-
lief allowed to all comers. and all the
features of liberality and tolerance
which drew settlers TO the Delaware
were due in no small degree to the
presence of influential Quakers among
it's proprictors. Among the rest was
William Penn, man at whose hands
schemes of proprietorship in America
were to receive new dignity. and
a touch almost OF romance
He was but thirty-one when he
bought a share in the, province of
West Jersey G675). He had been born
in 1874. the year before Mr. InCle
turned reformer and rowing governor
M1rvlD pl-fwO H.
lam Berkeley came out to be governor
in Virginia. That was also the year
in which Mr. George Fox. the founder
of the sect of Quakers. first began, a
lad of twenty. to preach a new way
of life.
Penn was sincularIy unlike the
plain. unlettered people who had been
the nrst to hear Mr.. Fox with glad
ness and live as he counseIled He
was son to Sir William Penn. whom all
the world knew as admiral in the
royal navy, n great career behind him.
a favorite with the king for the serv-
ice he had done him when he was re-
stored-half man of the world, half
bluff sailor: man of fortune. and OF
4 direct and ready fashion of ma king
his own way: no lover of new tangled
notions or young mems whims: and
his son had so handsome a person. so
Ealiant manner. so manifest charm
in what he said and did. that Sir
Williams head was filed with dreams
of what he should become-dreams of
preferment and A notable career in af-
fairs. 1t astounded and angered him
nightly that the boy should turn
Quaker and give up everything for
set of foolish notions. But it half
pleased the old man. after all. when
his first choler was passed. to see how
steadfast his son was 1t half amused
him to recognize his own wilfulness
turned to such a use. presently he for
gave the strange lad. like the frank
sailor he was. and helped him to sue
ceed in another way.
Tomorrow, "The Coming Of Andros."