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 Christian wisdom, or they adopted the policy of the Gospel instead of the policy of the world.  They had to deal with the same savage Indians as the other settlers.  They had the same fury to guard against, and were in a situation much more exposed to attack, and of course much more creative of alarm; for they had neither sword nor musket, nor pallisadoe, nor fort.  They judged it neither necessary to watch, nor to be provided with ammunition, nor to become soldiers.  They spoke the language of peace to the natives, and they proved the sincerity of their