The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1933-07-14

Nor does his influence cease with the state
government for the present Constitution of the
United States in many ways reflects PENIS mind
notably in the executive being separate from the
legislature, and In the Presidents appointment
of certain officers. 1t is not Pennsylvania alone
that owes its shape to the constructive brain
of William Penn"
1T is true that as Holy Experiment PENIS
dream has died forgotten for reason frankly
pointed out TO him in ITO by his friend, Isaac
Norris: We say principles are not destructive
or repugnant TO civil government, and will admit
free liberty of conscience to all; yet to me it
appears, according to the best scheme I
form. from the opinions of many Friends, TO be
concerned in government and hold them, must
either be independent and entirely by ourselves;
or, if mixed, partial to our own opinion, and not
allow the liberty to Others who make conscience,
they say, to have oath, we desire from them:
or be. as thou used to express it, dissenters in
our own country"
Such was the man who began his pioneering
pioneering In departing from the beaten path
of most mems thinkng-early in his life. Penn
was born in 1914. the son of Admiral Sir Will
liam Penn of the British royal navy. He entered
Christ college. Oxford, at about the age of if-
teen where he under the influence Of
George Fox and Thomas Loe the great Quakers
of the period who induced him to join that
body The college authorities fined him for
conformity but as he adhered TO his faith he
was expelled from the college.
PENIS father was furious with him at first but
finally relented and sent him to France where he
was presented to Louis XIV and became great
favorite at the court Then followed brief
career as a law student and member of the
staff of his father, the admiral
In 1868 he returned to Navy Gardens and
dropped the sword for the pen, writing a num-
Der of tracts for one of which, entitled Truth
Exalted" he, In 1868, was committed TO the
Tower of London. In 1875 William Penn was
one Of the early settlers in West New Jersey
in America. but prior to this he had often in
his mind the idea Of forming settlement abroad
in some country where the Quakers could estab-
lish themselves for their own good, and live at
peace with all men. As the king, Charles II. was
Indebted to his late father. Admiral Sir William
Penn not only for services rendered but for
1900 pounds actual cash. he was willing
enough to pay Off the debt by granting Penn a
charter. dated March 4. 1851, for the governor
ship of the colony of Pennsylvania then held by
the Duke of York and Albany. who had leased
it TO Sir George Carterel
In addition to this charter Penn obtained (to
prevent all future claim trouble) a deed from
the Duke of York certifying that he the
sole proprietor of the county. Besides. as addi-
tiona territory to the Province. he obtained from
the duke MS rlgnlS ulle- etC. 10 the llrec lower
countries on the Delaware. In fixing the boun-
daries between this territory and Maryland
dispute arose with Lord Baltimore due to the
ignorance of the geography OF the Atlantic coast
by the commissioners of trade and plantations
who in the charters Of the two colonies granted
certain tracts of the same land to both Penn
and Baltimore
The charters stated that the boundary between
the two colonies was to be the 10th parallel of
latitude but no one knew exactly where this
parallel ran Il was intended that PENIS south