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Title: The library of American history, literature and biography ..
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 Birdsall, William Wilfred, 1854-1909 Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
Subjects: American literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The J. C. Winston Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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importantadvantage in the after history of America that it should have fallen into thehands of the English. As a conservative element, the peaceful, prosperous Friend was of immensevalue in colonial development. The grant which William Penn obtained in 1681gave him a tract of forty thousand square miles between the estates of Yorkand Baltimore. Penns charter was in imitation of that granted to Marjdand,with important differences. With the approval of Lord Baltimore, laws passedby the Maryland Assembly were valid, but the king reserved the right to approvethe laws of Pennsylvania. The same principle was applied to the right oftaxation. There was about fifty years between the two charters. The settlement of New Jersey by Quakers was that which first drew Pennsattention to America. In drawing up the plans for his projected State he did soin accordance with Quaker ideas, which in point of humanity were far in advanceof the times. The declaration that governments exist for the sake of the
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6o THE STORY OF AMERICA. governed, that the purpose of punishment is reformation, that justice to Indiansas well as to white men should be considered, were starding in their novelty. The success of this enterprise was instant and remarkable. In three yearsthe colony numbered eight thousand people. The applications for land pouredin and the affairs of the colonists were wisely administered, and before thedeath of her great founder, Pennsylvania was firmly established. Educationwas a matter of care from the very start in Philadelphia, although throughoutthe rest of the state it was neglected for many years. Indian troubles werescarcely known. The great blot on the scutcheon of the Quaker colony wasthe use of white slaves, for whom Philadelphia became the chief market in thenew world. Not less remarkable than the unity of time which characterized theplanting of several American settlements was the unity of race into whichthey all finally merged, with few and slight exceptions, so that in

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