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The illustrated history of the Centennial exhibition, held in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of American independence. With a full description of the great buildings and all the objects of interest exhibited in them ... to which is added a complete description of the city of Philadelphia (1877)

McCabe, James Dabney, 1842-1883 · Philadelphia, Pa., National Publishing Company · leaf 40

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nfirmed bv no oath, but it remained unbroken for fifty years, and as neither side sought to evade its obligations, which were simply of peace aid good will, the colony of Pennsylvania escaped in its. earlier years the horrors of a savage warfare from which the other settlers suffered. “We will… … ‘centennial award medal. from violence ; he had no message but peace ; and not a drop of Quaker blood was ever shed by an Indian.” The venerable elm tree which witnessed “ the only treaty ever ratified without an oath, and the only one never broken,” stood unharmed until 1810, when it was blown…

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