Our puritan fathers did not come to this wilderness with French, atheistic, idolatrous love for a goddess of liberty.

They came here, it is true, for liberty of conscience and freedom to worship God.

With a great sum they purchased this freedom.

But infidels could as well claim to be absolved by the laws from all recognition of God, under the plea of liberty, as Mr.Williams and his friends could make his demands for toleration.

To insist that our fathers, in their circumstances, should have opened their doors wide to every doctrine, and to the denial of everything professed by them, is unreasonable.