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 "protetants" againt the whole ytem; their example was powerles in that day and generation. The words and thoughts of a Williams, an Eliot, and a Sewall, fell unheeded and unnoticed on the ears and hearts of the magitrates and people of their time, as the acorn fell two centuries ago in the forets by which they were urrounded.

the humane efforts of Roger Williams and John Eliot to abate the everity of judgment againt captives, and mitigate the horrors of lavery in Maachuetts, hardly amounted to a poitive protet againt the intitution itelf. In their time there was no public opinion againt lavery, and probably very little exercie of private judgment againt it. Even among the Quakers the inner light had not yet discloed its enormity, or awakened tender conciences to its utter wickednes.

There were two ignal exceptions to the general