William Allen High School - Comus Yearbook (Allentown, PA)

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I , ffl Q iff' ff: S.. fri ,ik is 122' Juv l-llstory of the Lehlgh County lndlan CConlmued from page scvenj that xt was strange that a people who professed themselves believers ln a rellglon revealed to them by the Great Spirit the Word of God and his laws and com mandments textually written could thunk of making a llquor calculated to bewltch people and make them destroy one another Here appears the tradition as glven by the Indians telling when and where they first drank the fiery liquor This occurred rn September of 1609 when the Dutch under the voyager Henry Hudson then anchored ln New York Bay met by appointment the Mohlcans a tribe of the Lenapes and induced them to par take of their drmk Meanwhile a large bottle IS brought by one of the servants of the whlte officer from which an unknown substance IS poured out mto a small cup or glass and handed to the whlte officer He drmks has the glass filled again and hands lt to the chlef standing next to him The chief receives lt but only smells the contents and passes lt on to the next chief who does the same The glass or cup thus passes through the clrcle wlthout the llquor belng tasted by any one and IS upon the point of bemg returned to the red clothed white officer when one of the Indians a brave man and a great warrlor suddenly Jumps up and harangues the assembly on the lmproprlety of returning the cup with its contents It was handed to them says he by the whlte officer that they should drmk out of xt as he himself had done To follow hrs example would be pleasing to hlm but to return what he had given them might provoke his wrath and brmg destruction on them and smce the orator believed It for the good of the nation that the contents offered them should be drunk and as no one else would do lt he would drmk lt himself let the consequence be what lt might rt was better for one man to die than that a whole nation should be destroyed He then took the glass and bidding the assem bly a solemn farewell at once drank up the whole contents Every eye was fixed soon began to stagger and at last fell prostrate to the ground His companions now bemoan his fate he falls mto a sound sleep and they think he has expired He wakes agam Jumps up and declares that he has enjoyed the most dellClOUS sensa tions and that he never before felt himself so happy as after he drank the cup He asks for more his wish I8 granted The whole assembly then imitate him and all become intoxicated ln this manner was introduced mto this country that which has brought about such horror and sorrows lmposslble to descrlbe The voyager Hudson s llfe came to an end m Hudson s Bay while seeking a western passage to China Falling his miserable crew ignorant and frightened at the arctic cold mutmled and put him with his son seven years old and a few mvalrd sallors adrift m a boat and left them to perish a punishment perhaps for the unjust act done to the Indians THE WALKING PURCHASE Very little can be said against William Penn the founder of the Provlnce of Pennsylvania His mistakes were few and no doubt innocently made H tried at least to hold the good will of the Aborlglnal people then m possession of the lands upon which they were roamlng History attests this fact as our readers well know Thus however cannot be said of his son Thomas Penn who was as great a cheat as ever disgraced the Provmce founded by his 1llustr1ous father One of hrs several shady real estate transactions was the famous Walking Purchase brought about in September l737 This cheating land grabbing off spring of an honorable father claimed that certaln Lennl Lenape chleftalns had on August 30 l686 given a deed to William Penn for territory extending m a northerly direction as far as a man could walk ln a day and a half and thence eastwardly to the Delaware River It was a paper without signature of any kind and was marked as a copy The orlgmal document was never seen nor heard of It was designed to cover that part Continued on page one hundred lwenly Iwo, Page Sixteen 5? 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