Faced by this rising tide of immigration, Pennsylvania Quakers remained keenly aware of the political proclivities of Presbyterians. Daniel Morris emigrated from Scotland in 1770 aged 14, and 'my father not being able to pay for my passage', he recorded, 'I was sold' as an indentured servant to John Garrett. After the British evacuated Philadelphia, and Washington's army was approaching, wrote Morris:
I TOLD MY MASTER, WHO WAS A QUAKER, OF IT. HE SAID, 'DOES THEE NOT WISH THAT THEY WOULD COME AND PRESS MY HORSE AND WAGON AND PRESS THEE TO DRIVE IT?' I TOLD HIM I DID. I HAD A WHIP IN MY HAND WHICH HE TOOK FROM ME AND GAVE ME SEVERAL LASHES WITH IT AND SAID, 'THEE SCOTCH REBEL, THOU WAS A REBEL IN THINE OWN COUNTRY, AND NOW THOU HAS COME HERE TO REBEL.' SO I WAS DETERMINED TO LEAVE HIM, WHICH I DID.
-- and enlisted in the revolutionary army. John C. Dann (ed) p. 162.
Lincoln was thought by the negroes at Second Creek to be about to liberate them from slavery; just as Daniel Morris had thought, "four score and seven years" or so before, that Washington was coming to liberate him from bondage.
Lincoln was thought by the negroes at Second Creek to be about to liberate them from slavery; just as Daniel Morris had thought, "four score and seven years" or so before, that Washington was coming to liberate him from bondage.
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