I will seek to make the point at issue as clear to you as it may be.

You have doubtless heard of the Penn family, from whom this colony takes its name.

Much we owe to our founder--his wisdom, liberality, and enlightenment; but his sons are hated here.
They are absent in England, but they are the proprietaries of vast tracts of land, and it is with regard to these lands that the troubles in the Assembly arise.

The proprietaries are regarded as renegades from the faith; for the Assembly here is Quaker almost to a man.

They hate the feudalism of the tenure of the proprietaries, and they are resolved to tax these lands, although they will not defend them, and although no income is at present derived from them." "Have they the power to do so ?" asked Julian.
"Not without the consent of the Governor.