soldier, with
reputation. On one occasion, while in command on the western frontier of
Pennsylvania, against a league of the French and Indians, not only his glory,
but the safety of himself and his troops were jeoparded, by the peaceful policy
of that colony. To the soldier, this was an unpardonable offence. He was
fighting in their defence - he knew that the mild principles of this little
nation of practical christians, would be disregarded by their subtle and
malignant enemies; and he felt the injury the more deeply, because he saw that
the avowed object of the colonists, in withholding their succours, would only
have a tendency to expose his command, without preserving the peace. The soldier
succeeded, after a desperate conflict, in extricating himself with a handful of
his men, from their murderous enemy; but he never forgave the people who had
exposed him to a danger, which they left him to combat alone. It was in vain to
tell him, that they had no agency in his being placed on their frontier at all;
it was evidently for their benefit that he had been so placed, and it was their
religious duty, so the Major always expressed it, »it was their religious duty
to have supported him.«
    At no time was the old soldier an admirer of the peaceful disciples of Fox.
Their disciplined habits, both of mind and body, had endowed them with great
physical perfection, and the eye of the veteran was apt to scan the fair
proportions and athletic frames of the colonists, with a look that seemed to
utter volumes of contempt for their moral imbecility. He was also a little
addicted to the expression of a belief, that, where there was so great an
observance of the externals of religion, there could not be much of the
substance. - It is not our task to explain what is, or what ought to be, the
substance of christianity, but merely to record in this place the opinions of
Major Effingham.
    Knowing the sentiments of the father, in relation to this people, it was no
wonder that the son hesitated to avow his connexion with, nay, even his
dependence on the integrity of, a quaker.
    It has been said that Marmaduke deduced his origin from the cotemporaries
and friends of Penn. His father had married without the pale of the church to
which he belonged, and had, in this manner, forfeited some of the privileges
which would have descended to his offspring. Still, as young Marmaduke was
educated in a colony and society, where even the ordinary intercourse between
friends, was tinctured with the aspect