Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society, Vol. 13
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Excerpt from Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society, Vol. 13: The Quakers in Ancient Newport, Synopsis of a Paper; Read Before the Society at the Annual Meeting, May Twenty-Ninth, July, 1914 Still further, I maintain that the Quaker element at Newport was the most consistent and successful illustrator and defender of the faith. It is to me a strange neglect that has fallen on the Quaker services and influence on the Colonial life of Newport and of the Colony of Rhode Island and the Plantatations. Among the great facts relating to Newport history the following should be recognized and emphasized. 1. The pre-Quaker movement, illustrated in the leadership of Anne Hutchinson and later that of William Coddington, was a soul-liberty event. 2. The early settlement of Quakers at Newport shows it to have been the asylum of the men and women in search of religious freedom. The execution of Mary Dyer was testimony of their faith in great principles. 3. The fact that Quaker governors, resident of Newport, ruled Rhode Island for more than a century, shows the dominance of the principle of Soul-liberty in the Southern Capital of the Colony. 4. The landing of the ship Wood-house at Newport in 1652, with English Quakers, was a significant event in the religious life of the Southern Colony, giving to the body of freemen a new impulse, and freedom of conscience splendid supporters. 5. The visit of George Fox and the establishment of the first Quaker annual meeting at Portsmouth are significant of the attitude of the founders of Aquidneck plantation. 6. The great prosperity of Rhode Island Colony for a century and a half, its attitudes towards public education, art, science, literature, its influence over the colony in all political and social movements, its complete defence in legislation and its practical illustration in the life of the people for the doctrine of soul-liberty, were the fruits of Quaker senti* ment and civilization. Gentile and Jew, Roman Catholic and Protestant. Pilgrim. Puritan or Agnostic, all found a quiet home and consistent support among the peace-loving proprietors of Newport. My own deliberate judgment is this, that the world owes a greater debt of homage for the clean, definite and practical illustration of soul-liberty. as illustrated in social, civil, industrial and religious concerns, to Newport, under the guidance of William Coddington, John Clarke, Nicholas Easton and the Wantons than to Providence, under the direction of Koger Williams and his associates. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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