[Footnote 16: Trumbull's History of Connecticut, p. 56.]

I find from this author, looking farther into his history, that
previously to the order of the court at Dorchester, which did nothing
more than enjoin a more strict execution of the original plan, which was
that of military preparation and defence, some of the settlers had been
killed by the natives. The provocation which the natives received, is
not mentioned. But it was probably provocation enough to savage Indians,
to see people settle in their country with all the signs and symptoms of
war. Was such a system likely to have any other effect than that of
exciting their jealousy? They could see that these settlers had at least
no objection to the use of arms. They could see that these arms could
never be intended but against other persons, and there were no other
persons there but themselves. Judging therefore by outward
circumstances, they could draw no inference of a peaceable disposition
in their new neighbours. War soon followed. The Pequots were attacked.
Prisoners were made on both sides. The Indians treated those settlers
barbarously, who fell into their hands, for they did not see, on the
capture of their own countrymen, any better usage on the part of the
settlers themselves; for these settlers, again, had not the wisdom to
use the policy of the Gospel, but preferred the policy of the world.[17]
"Though the first planters of New-England and Connecticut, says the same
author, were men of eminent piety and strict morals, yet, like other
good men, they were subject to misconception, and the influence of
passion. Their beheading sachems whom they took in war, killing the male
captives, and enslaving the women and children, was treating them with a
severity, which, on the benevolent principles of Christianity, it will
be difficult to justify."

[Footnote 17: P. 112.]

After this treatment, war followed war. And as other settlements were
made by others in other states on the same principles, war fell to their
portion likewise. And the whole history of the settlement of America,
where these principles were followed, or where the policy of the world
was adopted, is full of the wars between the settlers and the Indians,
which have continued more or less, and this nearly up to the present
day.

But widely different was the situation of the settlers under William
Penn. When he and his fellow Quakers went to this continent, they went
with the principles of Chri