Gazette Of The United States

A writer in the Alexandria Advertiser, speaking of the descendants of Mr. Penn, and of the people called Quakers, says, "they are a blessing to every government where they reside, so exemplary for industry, peace and economy, with every moral and political virtue; the regulations by which they are governed, are in a great degree owing to the superior abilities and endowments of Mr. Penn, who stands the first and most exalted patron of civil and religious liberty, justly honored with the highest applause by the most celebrated authors, and had the greatest encomiums bestowed upon him by the first judges in politics, for the sublimity of his wisdom, his extensive knowledge, boundless generosity and benevolent disposition: In a word,—had William Penn been a native of Greece, his statue would have been placed above those of Solon and Lycurgus."