"We meet," said Penn, "on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love. I will not call you children, for parents sometimes chide their children too severely; nor brothers only; for brothers differ. The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. We are the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts; we are all one flesh and blood." Treaty Monument. * ```"' Thou'lt find.' said the Quaker, 'in me and mine, ```But friends and brothers to thee and to thine, ```Who abuse no power and admit no line ````'Twixt the red men and the white.' ```And bright was the spot where the Quaker came ```To leave his hat, his drab, and his name, ```That will sweetly sound from the trump of Fame ````Till its final blast shall die. ```The city he rear'd from the sylvan shade. ```His beautiful monument now is made; ```And long have the rivers their pride display'd ````In the scenes that are rolling by." `````Hannah F. Gould.= The children of the forest were touched by the sacred doctrine which the "Quaker king" avowed. They received the presents of Penn in sincerity, and in hearty friendship they gave the belt of wampum. "'We will live,' said they, 'in love with William Penn and his children as long as the moon and the sun shall endure.'" Thus was established the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, its foundations laid deep and broad upon the sacred rules of truth and justice, the cardinal principles of the Quakers, who formed the prime element of the new state. That sect stood out in bold relief as exemplars of moral purity in an age and among a people eminently licentious. The court, the fountain-head of example, was wholly impure in morals, skeptical in religion, and unscrupulous in politics. Unlike the other Puritan sects, which gave royalty so much trouble, the Quakers taught morality more by example than by precept; yet they were ever bold in the * This monument stands near the intersection of Hanover and Beach Streets, Kensington, on the spot where the celebrated Treaty Tree stood. The tree was blown down in 1810, when it was ascertained to be 283 years old. When the British were in possession of Philadelphia, during the winter of 1778, their foraging parties were out in every direction for fuel. To protect this tree from the ax, Colonel Simcoe, of the Queen's Rangers, placed a sentinel under it. Of its remains, many chairs, vases, work-stands, and other articles have been made. The commemorative monument was erected by the Penn Soeiety. Upon it are the following inscriptions: North side.--"Treaty ground of William Penn and the Indian nation, 1682. Unbroken Faith." South side.--"William Penn, born 1644. Died, 1718." West side.--"Placed by the Penn Soeiety, A.D. 1827, to mark the site of the great Elm Tree." East side.--"Pennsylvania founded, 1681, by deeds of Peace."