A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . at once to Salem in a shallop with orders totake him and put him on board a ship about to sail for Eng- arre™o?land. When Underbill arrived he was gone; some kind ^^™^*friends had given him information of the proposed arrest, and he fledalone out into the night and the wilderness. Winthrop was not, this year, the governor of Massachusetts, andma
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . at once to Salem in a shallop with orders totake him and put him on board a ship about to sail for Eng- arre™o?land. When Underbill arrived he was gone; some kind ^^™^*friends had given him information of the proposed arrest, and he fledalone out into the night and the wilderness. Winthrop was not, this year, the governor of Massachusetts, andmay have felt that release from official duty permitted the indulgenceof a feeling of personal friendship and sympathy. In a letter writtenthirty-five years afterward, Williams says, that ever honored gover-nor, Mr. Winthrop, privately wrote to me to steer my course to theNarragansett Bay and Indians for many high and heavenly and publicends, encouraging me from the freeness of place from any Englishclaims or patents. ^ To Narragansett Bay, accordingly, he steered 1 Letter from Roger Williams to Major Mason, Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol. i., FourthSeries. The letters of Williams to Winthrop during the years immediately succeeding hisVOL. 1. 35. 546 NEW ENGLAND COLONIES. [Chap. XXL his course, though in winter snow which I feel yet, he adds, paren-thetically, for it was in January. But he was not without friends in the wilderness into which hethrew himself. His essay on the rights of the Indian to the soil, —which had been construed into an attack upon the patent and uponThe flight of ^^^ king, and made matter of accusation against him — wasWilliams. j^Q-j. nierely an idle, abstract argument with him, but a livingtruth. His belief in their rights was wider and more earnest thanthe belief of those about him, though they were not disposed to beunjust to the natives. But to him they were a people to be tenderlyused and gently led out of the darkness of Heathenism, and the in-t
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