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tree might break. We are the same, as if one man's 

 body were divided into two parts; we are all one flesh 

 and one blood." 



These touches of pathetic eloquence, clothed by the 

 sacredness of that sound doctrine which flowed from the 

 speaker, reached their understandings, affected their 

 hearts, assuaged their revenge, and removed their guile- 

 They received the presents of Penn with more than mere 

 formality, it was with sincere cordiality ; they accepted his 

 gifts, and in friendship gave him the belt of wampum. 

 *^We, exclaimed they, as whh a sound of many waters, 

 will live in love with William Penn and his children, as 

 long as the moon and the su:i shall endure." 



This treaty of peace and friendship was made under 

 the open sky, by the side of the Delaware, with the sun, 

 the river, and the leafless forest, for witness. It was 

 not confirmed by an oath : it was not ratified by signa- 

 tures and seals: no written record of the conferences can 

 be fomid; and its terms and conditions, had no abiding 

 monument but on the heart.* There they were written 

 tike the law of God, and were never forgotten. The 

 artless sons of the wilderness, returning to their wigwams 

 and their cabins, would count over shells on a clean piece 

 of bark, and recall to their memory, and repeat to their 

 children, or to the stranger, the words of the Quaker 

 King. This treaty, executed without oath, was inviola- 

 bly kept for forty six years, on the part of the natives.t 



It has been well observed that the benevolence of Wil- 

 Uam Penn's disposition led him to exercise great tender- 

 ness towards the tawny sons of the woods, which, however, 

 was much increased by the opinion he had formed, and 

 which he boldly and ingenuously avowjd, supporting it 



^Bancroft, II. 382, f Col. Rec. III. 301-350. 



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