Wallace, Horace B.                                      230
Wallace, William R.                                     400
Walsh, Robert                                           153
ware, William                                           293
Warfield, Catherine A.                             308, 398
Washington, George                                      249
Wayland, Francis                                        157
Webber, Charles W.                                      265
Webster, Daniel                              85, 86, 87, 88
Welby, Amelia B.                                        402
Whipple, Edwin P.                                       236
White, Richard grant                                    240
Whitman, Walter                                         401
Whittier, John G.                        372, 373, 374, 375
Wilde, Richard H.                                  186, 330
Williams, Roger                                           1
Williams, William R.                                     40
Willis, Nathaniel P.                     204, 205, 365, 366
Wilson, Alexander                                  255, 256
Winthrop, John                                       10, 11
Wirt, William                                           176
Woolman, John                                            17
Woolsey, Theodore D.                                    161
Worthington, Jane T.L.                                  237

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American literature.

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CHAPTER I.

RELIGIOUS WRITERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES.

=_Roger Williams, 1598-1683._= (Manual, pp. 480, 512.)

From his “Memoirs.”

=_1.=_ Extent of religious freedom.

There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth, or a human combination or society.  It hath fallen out, sometimes, that both Papists and Protestants, Jews and Turks, may be embarked into one ship.  Upon which supposal, I affirm that all the liberty of conscience, that ever I pleaded for, turns upon these two hinges; that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks, be forced to come to the ship’s prayers, nor compelled from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practice any....  If any of the seamen