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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
ch the people of North Carolina met the first messengers of religion. From the commencement of the settlement, 1672 there seems not to have been a minister in the land; there was no public worship but such as burst from the hearts of the people themselves, if at times natural feeling took the form of words, and the planters hailed Heaven as they went forth to the tasks of the morning. But man is by nature prone to religious impressions; and when at last William Edmundson came to visit his Quaker brethren among the groves of Albemarle, he met with a tender people; Fox's Journal. 453. delivered his doctrine in the authority of truth, and made converts to the society of Friends. A quarterly meeting of discipline was established; and the society, of which opposition to spiritual authority is the badge, was the first to organize a religious government in Carolina. Martin, i. 155, 156. In the autumn of the same year, George Fox, the Chap. XIII.} 1672 father of the sect, the u
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
and repeat to their children or to the stranger, the words of William Penn. Heckewelder, Hist. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc 176. New England had just terminated a disastrous war of extermination; the Dutch were scarcely ever Chap XVI.} 1682 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 violence; he had no message but peace; and not 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? The Quakers, ignorant of the homage which their virtues would receive from Voltaire and Raynal, men so unlike themselves, exulted in the consciousness of their humanity. We have done better, said they truly, than if, with the proud Spaniards, we had gained the mines of Potosi. We may make the ambitious heroes, whom the world admires, blush for their shamef