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144 the judges, and attended public worship in the same meeting-house with the fugitive, the congregation sung an awful hymn in his very ears.

Would the men of Connecticut have done right, bewraying him that wandered, and exposing the outcast, to give up the man who had defended the liberties of the world and the rights of mankind against a tyrant,—give him up because a wanton king, and his loose men and loose women, made such a commandment? One of the regicides dwelt in peace eight-and-twenty years in New England, a monument of the virtue of the people. Of old time the Roman statute commanded the Christians to sacrifice to Jupiter; they deemed it the highest sin to