| Show A GREAT DAY FOR pennsylvania MA anthe is in one of the he mew crable days I 1 in a the history of the brit ishi colonies of america it wason was on thu date just years yean ago that william peon penn received charles 11 II of england Engla ild a grant of the territory now known as Plenn pennsylvania sylvania it is well known that the great quaker was subjected to the vilest kind of persecution on account of his hia religious convictions he H was turned out of doors by his father admiral penn for his quakerism he was ex pelted belted from christ church oxford but it must mast be ba confessed conf eseed that he be was a little radical and eveh even aggressive tn his university days when a very young man iman he became converted to quakerism and at once figured as an a vigorous champion of its doctrines doctrin ee while at the university he not only refused to wear the robes ribes of the church of england theologians but be lulled them off the backs of other students af course he was waft expelled from aroa the college collego and was then turned out of doors by his father he was for a time most radical and even pugnacious in his advocacy of religion his father sent bent him to the continent hipping that a foreign trip would modify his intemperate religious views it did no good young penn was even more radical after his return he ws w s immured in the tower and subjected to indignities and arrests day after day finally his father sent him to ireland nd to manage some family estates in the county of cork strange to say young william penn almost immediately after his arrival in that country settled down into the typical matter of 91 fact quaker he was arrested once by a carpetbag carpet bag mayor of cork bork city but by the influence of friends he was liberated and permitted to worship according to quaker rites after returning to england he got into trouble again he wrote several pamphlets for which he was prosecuted and imprisoned one entitled no cross no crown was considered a work of rare merit meril then he turned his attention to the new world his idea to form a colony of co religionists developed into material form and on march 24 1681 he rec received elved a grant of land in america from charles II 11 in I 1 lieu of an claim against the british crown his establishment of pennsylvania and its colonization was marked by one fettu feature re which will forever shed a lustre over over the name of penn that is in his bis treatment of the indians I 1 every treaty he made with them was sacredly observed not a drop of indian blood stained the soil of penns territory and the poet truly says its flood waters fields blodi J 1 I an penn woo was waa weh treated by james 11 II and all the quakers in british prisons at the h time of his bis accession n wets were libera liberated and permitted to emigrate to the new world william of ora orange ng 0 did not treat penn so well in fact the latter was compelled to return ta to england and surrender his bis proprietary of f his new world posse possessions alons for a consideration of penn died in bugla england n d in 1718 but it to is in america that his name is written in in indelible cha characters iud and it is to america that tho the perpetuation ot of his fame fame will be indebted |
