n, haunting with them at night meetings
and junketings, etcetera, was sentenced to be _severely_ whipped, and
fined 5 pounds to Mr Malbon, and 5 pounds to Will Andrews, whose
famylyes and daughters he hath so much wronged; and presently to depart
the plantation."

Thus winds up the _disgraceful_ end of our Colonial Don Juan of 1643.

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The articles of the Blue laws, which I have extracted, are from a
portion which appears to have been drawn up more in detail; but,
generally, they are much more pithy and concise, as the following
examples will show:--

"No. 13. No food and lodgings shall be allowed a Quaker, Adamite, or
other heretic.

"No. 14. If any person turns Quaker, he shall be banished, and not
suffered to return, on pain of death."

I was walking in Philadelphia, when I perceived the name of Buffum,
Hatter. Wishing to ascertain whether it was an English name or not, I
went in, and entered into conversation with Mr Buffum, who was dressed
as what is termed a wet Quaker. He told me that his was an English
name, and that his ancestor had been banished from Salem for a heinous
crime--which was, as the sentence worded it, for being a damned Quaker.
The reason why Quakers were banished by the Puritans, was because they
would not; go out to _shoot the Indians_! To continue:--

"No. 17. No one shall _run_ of a Sabbath-day, or walk in his garden or
elsewhere, except reverently to and from church.

"No. 18. No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep houses,
cut hair or shave on Sabbath-day.

"No. 19. No husband shall kiss his wife, and no mother shall kiss her
child upon the Sabbath day.

"No. 31. No one shall read Common Prayer, keep Christmas or
saints'-day, make mince-pies, dance, or play on any instrument of music,
except the drum, the trumpet, and the jews-harp."

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I do not know any thing that disgusts me so much as _cant_. Even now we
continually hear, in the American public orations, about the _stern
virtues_ of the pilgrim fathers. _Stern_, indeed! The fact is, that
these pilgrim fathers were fanatics and bigots, without charity or
mercy, wanting in the very _essence_ of Christianity. Witness their
conduct to the Indians when they thirsted for their territory. After
the death (murder, we may well call it) of Alexander, the brother of t