In Consequence Of These Laws, Four Quakers Were Put To Death At Boston Only; When Their Friends In England Procured An Order From King Charles The Second, Which Put A Stop To _Capital Executions_."

And now, friend Joseph, what do you think of these primitive christians? When the _real_ Christian _William Penn_ arrived in

America, what was _his retaliation?_ He called his city _Philadelphia_, to perpetuate a memorial of the cords of peace and good will, which bound him, and all his followers, not only to one another, but even to his enemies at Boston, were they inclined to come and settle with them. - The following words of his proclamation ought to be written in letters of gold: -

"Because no people can be happy, if abridged of the freedom of their consciences, as to their religious professions and worship; I do grant and declare, that no person inhabiting this province, or territories, who shall acknowledge one Almighty God, the Creator, Ruler, and Upholder of the world, and live quietly under the civil government, shall in any case be molested, or prejudiced in his person or estate because of his conscientious persuasion or practice."

But to return to New England; happily for these states, the revolution has done away great part of the severity of their ancient laws; but the inhabitants still retain a taste for scriptural phrases and allusions in their writings. As you are fond of _poetry_, I send you two specimens of this kind of writing; the first is from a tomb-stone at _Plymouth_[Footnote:

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