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 . as deeply laden with provisions, and the day ofhumiliation and supplication was changed to one of thanksgiving andpraise, for the people felt that, like the children of Israel, they were the chosen of the Lord, and that he had sent them succor. iSiiic c ^ ^ ^ ill 1 Arrival of Possibly the fervor of the thanksgiving would have been Roger wn- liam
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 . as deeply laden with provisions, and the day ofhumiliation and supplication was changed to one of thanksgiving andpraise, for the people felt that, like the children of Israel, they were the chosen of the Lord, and that he had sent them succor. iSiiic c ^ ^ ^ ill 1 Arrival of Possibly the fervor of the thanksgiving would have been Roger wn- liams. moderated could they have foreseen what else the shipbrought them in the person of Roger Williams, who, with his newlymarried wife, was a passenger on board the Lion. 1 Lyfords Plain Dealing. Mathers Magnalia. ^ See Youngs Chronicles, note, p. 374, for various authorities. 534 MASSACHUSETTS BAY. [Chap. XX. Winthrop boarded the ship in the lower harbor, anxious aboutthe quaUty and quantity of her cargo, of so much importance tothe hungry colonists. The interview between him and Williamswas probably cordial, although the latter, while travelling the sameroad as the Puritans, had travelled faster and further ; and the course he had taken in his. ^Koji^ short career — he was not muchover thirty — in regard to theEstablished Church, was a re-buke to the cautious prudenceshown by Winthrop and his as-sociates before they left Eng-land. It is not likely, however,that it occurred to the governor,when they first met, that herein New England, where bothwere alike separated from theold order of things, any differ-ence could divide them. Amongthe passengers of the Lion^ thegovernor says, was Mr. Wil-liams, a godly ^ycJ t^^^CC^ti^j But they were, nevertheless,^ speedily and completely divided ^^^-^^ ^^ in their public relations, if not in their private friendship. Wil-liams was at first so well received in Boston, that he was unanimouslyelected, according to his own statemen
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