ſatanic defiance of God and Humanity which accompanied the laying of the corner-ſtone of the Slave-holders' Confederacy.
The ſtory 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 Winſlow to Winthrop as follows:
“‘The Pecoats follow their fiſhing & planting as if they had no enemies. Their women of eſteem & children are gone to Long Iſland with a ſtrong gard at Pecoat. They proſeſſe there you {ls}}hall finde them, and as they were there borne & bred, there their bones ſhall be buried, & rott in deſpight of the Engliſh. But if the Lord be on our ſide, their braggs will soon fall." M. H.S. Coll. iv., vi., 164.
The extracts which follow explain themſelves and hardly require comment.
Roger Williams, writing from Providence [in June 1637] to John Winthrop, ſays: "I underſtand it would be very gratefvll to our neighbours that ſuch Pequts as fall to them be not enſlaved, like thoſe which are taken in warr; but (as they ſay is their generall cuſtome) be vfed kindly, haue howſes & goods & fields given them: becauſe they voluntarily chooſe to come in to them, & if not receaved will [go] to the enemie or turne wild Iriſh themſelues: but of this more as I ſhall vnderftand. …" M. H. S. Coll., ic., vi 195.
Again [probably in July, 1637]: "It having againe pleaſed the Moſt High to put into your hands another miſerable droue of Adams degenerate ſeede, & our brethren by nature, I am bold (if I may not
