d strike thee with more horror than the yells of the furies?

_Cortez_.--Alas! I was not present when that dire act was done. Had I
been there I would have forbidden it. My nature was mild.

_Penn_.--Thou wast the captain of that band of robbers who did this
horrid deed. The advantage they had drawn from thy counsels and conduct
enabled them to commit it; and thy skill saved them afterwards from the
vengeance that was due to so enormous a crime. The enraged Mexicans
would have properly punished them for it, if they had not had thee for
their general, thou lieutenant of Satan.

_Cortez_.--The saints I find can rail, William Penn. But how do you hope
to preserve this admirable colony which you have settled? Your people,
you tell me, live like innocent lambs. Are there no wolves in North
America to devour those lambs? But if the Americans should continue in
perpetual peace with all your successors there, the French will not. Are
the inhabitants of Pennsylvania to make war against them with prayers and
preaching? If so, that garden of God which you say you have planted will
undoubtedly be their prey, and they will take from you your property,
your laws, and your religion.

_Penn_.--The Lord's will be done. The Lord will defend us against the
rage of our enemies if it be His good pleasure.

_Cortez_.--Is this the wisdom of a great legislator? I have heard some
of your countrymen compare you to Solon. Did Solon, think you, give laws
to a people, and leave those laws and that people at the mercy of every
invader? The first business of legislature is to provide a military
strength that may defend the whole system. If a house is built in a land
of robbers, without a gate to shut or a bolt or bar to secure it, what
avails it how well-proportioned or how commodious the architecture of it
may be? Is it richly furnished within? the more it will tempt the hands
of violence and of rapine to seize its wealth. The world, William Penn,
is all a land of robbers. Any state or commonwealth erected therein must
be well fenced and secured by good military institutions; or, the happier
it is in all other respects, the greater will be its danger, the more
speedy its destruction. Perhaps the neighbouring English colonies may
for a while protect yours; but that precarious security cannot always
preserve you. Your plan of government must be changed, or your colony
will be lost. What I have said is also applicable to Great