Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-x4r87 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-25T13:38:59.697Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Pacifism and the State in Colonial Pennsylvania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Guy Franklin Hershberger
Guy Franklin Hershberger
Affiliation:
Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

There are many varieties of pacifism in the world today. And the history of the peace movement shows that most of them, if not all, have had a long existence. Each type of pacifism is usually based on some corresponding variety of theology, religion, ethics, or political or social philosophy.

Type
Research Article
Information
Church History , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , March 1939 , pp. 54 - 74
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Church History 1939

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 For a statement of Worcester's views see his pamphlet, Solemn Review of the Custom of War, published in 1814, and Ms periodical, The Friend of Peace, 1815 ff.Google Scholar

2 Cf. Dodge, David Low, The Mediator's Kingdom, not of this World: But SpiritualGoogle Scholar, first published in 1809, and War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ, published in 1812.Google Scholar

3 Dodge, , War Inconsistent with the Religion of Jesus Christ (Boston, 1905 edition), 81.Google Scholar

4 Ibid., 165.

5 Cf. Ballou, Adin, Primitive Christianity and its Corruptions (1870).Google Scholar

6 Ibid., 180.

7 Laughlin, S. B., editor, Beyond Dilemmas: Quakers Look at Life (New York, 1937).Google Scholar

8 Ibid., 40–41.

9 Ibid., 139 ff.

10 Ibid., 219.

11 Cadbury, Henry J., “The Individual Christian and the State,” in Friends World Conference Official Report (Philadelphia, 1937), 35.Google Scholar

12 From the preface to the Frame of Government for Pennsylvania, reprinted in the Colonial Records, I, 30.Google Scholar

13 Colonial Records, I, 30.Google Scholar

14 Ibid., 1, 29.

15 See especially Niebuhr, Reinhold, Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics (New York. 1932).Google Scholar

16 Ibid., xi.

17 The charter of Charles II to William Penn is printed in full in the Colonial Records, I, 17–26Google Scholar. The above quotation appears on page 24.

18 From a MS. letter of William Penn to a friend, American Philosophical Society, Penn Letters and Ancient Documents Relating to Pennsylvania and New Jersey, I, 62.Google Scholar

19 Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Dreer Collection, Letters and Papers of William Penn, 25.Google Scholar

20 Ibid., 37.

21 Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New York, IV, 108–110.Google Scholar

22 Quoted from Janney, Samuel M., The Life of William Penn (Philadelphia, 1852), 396–7.Google Scholar

23 Dreer Collection, Letters and Papers of William Penn, 38.Google Scholar

24 Cf. Proud, Robert, The History of Pennsylvania in North America (Philadelphia, 1797), I, 371–376Google Scholar. See also McCreary, Nancy H., “Pennsylvania Literature of the Colonial Period,” Pennsylvania Magasine of History and Biography, LII, 295.Google Scholar

25 Minutes of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, I, 86.Google Scholar

26 Ibid., I, 132–134.

27 Letter from Norris, Isaac to Penn, William, 11 29, 1710Google Scholar, Penn-Logan Correspondence, II, 431.Google Scholar

28 James Logan to William Penn, Ibid., I, 227–235.

29 Philalethes (pseudonym), Tribute to Caesar (Philadelphia, 1715).Google Scholar

30 Colonial Records, IV, 354.Google Scholar

31 Ibid., IV, 366–368.

32 Ibid., IV, 371–375.

33 Ibid., IV, 422–467, at intervals.

34 Pemberton Papers, XXXIV, 2.Google Scholar

35 Logan's letter to the yearly meeting is printed in full in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, VI, 403–411.Google Scholar

36 Woolman, John, Journal, original MS. in Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 15.Google Scholar

37 Minutes of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, I, 452–3.Google Scholar

38 From Franklin, 's AutobiographyGoogle Scholar in Smyth, Albert Henry, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, I, 361–368.Google Scholar

39 Ibid., 368.

40 Colonial Records, V, 333–338.Google Scholar

41 Ibid., VI, 628.

42 Minutes of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, II, 76.Google Scholar

43 Votes of the Assembly, IV, 496.

44 Memoirs of Samuel Fothergill (New York, 1844), 255–6.Google Scholar

45 Votes of the Assembly, IV, 564–565.Google Scholar

46 Minutes of the Meeting for Sufferings for Pennsylvania, 37–40.Google Scholar

47 See the roll of members in the minutes of the assembly at the opening of each session, Votes of the Assembly.

48 Minutes of the Meeting for Sufferings, 41–42Google Scholar. Votes of the Assembly, IV, 626.Google Scholar

49 Minutes of the Meeting for Sufferings, 41–42.Google Scholar

50 Woolman, , Journal, 32–34.Google Scholar

51 Minutes of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, II, 120.Google Scholar

52 Woolman, , Journal, 99.Google Scholar

53 Niebuhr, Reinhold, “A Communication: The will of ood and the Van Zeeland Report,” in The Christian Century (12 14, 1938), LV, 1550.Google Scholar

54 Niebuhr, Reinhold, “Japan and the Christian Conscience,” in The Christian, Centry (11 10, 1937), LIV, 1391.Google Scholar

55 Sharpless, Isaac, Quakerism and Politics (1905), 87–88.Google Scholar

56 Letter from Hull, William I. to Woodward, Walter C., 04 5, 1937.Google Scholar