state? No, thou hadst turned those delightful and populous regions into
a desert--a desert flooded with blood. Dost thou not remember that most
infernal scene when the noble Emperor Guatimozin was stretched out by thy
soldiers upon hot burning coals to make him discover into what part of
the lake of Mexico he had thrown the royal treasures? Are not his groans
ever sounding in the ears of thy conscience? Do not they rend thy hard
heart, and strike thee with more horror than the yells of the furies?

_Cortez_.--Alas! I was not present when that dire act was done. Had I
been there I would have forbidden it. My nature was mild.

_Penn_.--Thou wast the captain of that band of robbers who did this
horrid deed. The advantage they had drawn from thy counsels and conduct
enabled them to commit it; and thy skill saved them afterwards from the
vengeance that was due to so enormous a crime. The enraged Mexicans
would have properly punished them for it, if they had not had thee for
their general, thou lieutenant of Satan.

_Cortez_.--The saints I find can rail, William Penn. But how do you hope
to preserve this admirable colony which you have settled? Your people,
you tell me, live like innocent lambs. Are there no wolves in North
America to devour those lambs? But if the Americans should continue in
perpetual peace with all your successors there, the French will not. Are
the inhabitants of Pennsylvania to make war against them with prayers and
preaching? If so, that garden of God which you say you have planted will
undoubtedly be their prey, and they will take from you your property,
your laws, and your religion.

_Penn_.--The Lord's will be done. The Lord will defend us against the
rage of our enemies if it be His good pleasure.