Year: 1859

hangman, just as she was about to be turned oh, cry was heard, ''Stop for she Is re- prlevedp' Her feet were then loosed, and she was directed to come down. But her mind was already, as it were, in heaven.- She stood still, and said, l" She was there willing to suffer as her brethren did, unless they wol Id annul their wicked laws" Lit | tie heed was given to what she said, but | they pulled her down, and the Marshal and others, taking her by the arms dragged her to prison again.

 The bodies of the men when cut down. were barbarously y used None taking hold of them they were suffered to fall to the ground; thereby the skull of Robinson was broken; and even their shirts were ripped off with knife, and their naked bodies cast into hole and remained uncovered. the Puritans refusing their friends the pri- vllege of providing collins for them

 W hen the people returned from the exc cution many seemed sad and heavy, and coming to the drawbridge, one end of it fell upon some and several were hurt, espe- cially a woman who had reviled the two persons at their death; but she was so bruised that her flesh rotted from her bones. which made such a noisome smell that her friends could not endure to be with her, in which miserable condition she did The clergy man Wilson" composed ballad on the executed men, to be sung by the faithful in the streets of Boston.

 Mary Dyar, refusing to leave the country, was soon again arrested and order ed to be hung on the morrow at 3 o'clock, which order was faithfully executed So hardened were the wretched Judges that that one of them said scoffingly "Mat she did hang as c fag .tor oilers 10 take erana- pie 6y"

 The blessed Purtans did not confne their prosecutions entirely to the Quake~s. Ro- ger Williams, the Baptist was driven out of the country and was compelled to seek an asylum in the then wilderness of Rhode Island, amongst the savage natives. He found more real christianity in the savage sons of the forest than he did in the en- frightened Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock All others that did not square their opin- ions on matters of religion to suit the Pu- ritans. were persecuted and driven out of the country under fear of scourging or death.

 Now why should such men as these, in this enlightened day and generation. be held up by those who aspire to be leaders in Israel, as the men we should take as our guiding star in politics and religion? Let us have less talk about the Plymouth Rock and the Landing of the Pilgrims--iti is not necessary when we have the history of our good old commonwealth to draw upon: the first to make a treaty without an oath and the only one that ever kept a treaty whe- ther solemnized by oath or not. Unbro- ken faith should be our motto: and when our City Fathers are looking around for bright example of Christian feeling and brothery love with which to point moral or adorn tale, they can rest their regards upon our own Pennsylvania, and say she was the first to establish the laws of uni versal brotherhood, the first to grant free dom of conscience, and her chief city is Philadelphia, which is Brotherly Love- There is no necessity, for those who are Philadelphians by birth or adoption, to go beyond the limits of their own State for model law -givers, when we can present the names of men who are recognized through out the world as the wisest and best of statesmen, from Penn down to the present day.

 

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