| George Bancroft - 1837 - 496 pages
...WEST'S PICTURE OF THE TREATY INCORRECT. 385 war of extermination ; the Dutch were scarcely ever CHAP. at peace with the Algonquins ; the laws of Maryland...~ refer to Indian hostilities and massacres, which extend- 1682. ed as far as Richmond. Penn came without arms ; he declared his purpose to abstain from... | |
| George Bancroft - United States - 1839 - 494 pages
...recall to their own memory, and repeat to their children or to the stranger, the words of William Penn.i New England had just terminated a disastrous war of extermination : the Dutch were scarcely ever CHAP XVI at peace with the Algonquins ; the laws of Maryland -^~ refer to Indian hostilities and massacres,... | |
| George Bancroft - 1844 - 500 pages
...Algonquins ; the laws of Maryland ā vā. refer to Indian hostilities and massacres, which extend- 1682 ed as far as Richmond. Penn came without arms ; he declared...a drop of Quaker blood was ever shed by an Indian. Was there not progress from Melendez to Roger Williams ? from Cortez and Pizarro to William Penn ?... | |
| Books - 1844 - 628 pages
...States, speaking of the wars that ensued on the settlement of the other American colonies, remarks that " New England had just terminated a disastrous war of...Maryland refer to Indian hostilities and massacres. Penn came without arms ; he declared his purpose to abstain from violence ; he had no message but peace,... | |
| Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1846 - 434 pages
...their own memory, and repeat to their children or the stranger, the words of William Penn. He had come without arms ; he declared his purpose to abstain...drop of Quaker blood was ever shed by an Indian.' (Bancroft, ii. 383, 384.) Who can tell how much the same spirit would have done to disarm all hostile... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 948 pages
...in subduing than the sword, and justice had greater weight with the Indian warrior than gunpowder. " New England had just terminated a disastrous war of...and not a drop of Quaker blood was ever shed by an Indian."3 They themselves were conscious of the power of rectitude. " We have done better," they said,... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1852 - 946 pages
...in subduing than the sword, and justice had greater weight with the Indian warrior than gunpowder. " New England had just terminated a disastrous war of...and not a drop of Quaker blood was ever shed by an Indian."1 They themselves were conscious of the power of rectitude. " We have done better," they said,... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT - 1854 - 492 pages
...New England had just terminated a disastrous war of extermination; the Dutch were scarcely ever CHAP, at peace with the Algonquins ; the laws of Maryland...a drop of Quaker blood was ever shed by an Indian. Was there not progress from Melendez to Roger Williams ? from Cortez and Pizarro to William Penn ?... | |
| james bowden - 1854 - 428 pages
...six Indian nations without so much as a militia for its defence." "New England," remarks Bancroft, "had just terminated a disastrous war of extermination...Maryland refer to Indian hostilities and massacres. Penn came without arms; he declared his purpose to abstain from violence ; he had no message but peace... | |
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