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 atanic defiance of God and Humanity which accompanied the laying of the corner-tone of the Slave-holders' Confederacy.

The tory of the extermination of the Pequods is well known. It was that warlike tribe who, ih the early months of "that fatal year," 1637, were reported by Governor Winlow to Winthrop as follows:

“‘The Pecoats follow their fihing & planting as if they had no enemies. Their women of eteem & children are gone to Long Iland with a trong gard at Pecoat. They proee there you {ls}}hall finde them, and as they were there borne & bred, there their bones hall be buried, & rott in depight of the Englih. But if the Lord be on our ide, their braggs will soon fall." M. H.S. Coll., vi., 164.

The extracts which follow explain themelves and hardly require comment.

Roger Williams, writing from Providence [in June 1637] to John Winthrop, ays: "I undertand it would be very gratefvll to our neighbours that uch Pequts as fall to them be not enlaved, like thoe which are taken in warr; but (as they ay is their generall cutome) be vfed kindly, haue howes & goods & fields given them: becaue they voluntarily chooe to come in to them, & if not receaved will [go] to the enemie or turne wild Irih themelues: but of this more as I hall vnderftand. …" M. H. S. Coll., ., vi 195.

Again [probably in July, 1637]: "It having againe pleaed the Mot High to put into your hands another mierable droue of Adams degenerate eede, & our brethren by nature, I am bold (if I may not