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Excerpt from The Life and Labors of Rev. Samuel Worcester, D. D, Vol. 1: Former Pastor of the Tabernacle Church, Salem, Mass
Nothing, therefore, was further from their hearts than the wish or the thought of colonizing an immense howling wilderness, and redeeming it for a goodly heritage, at the price of the blood of the children of its forests and its streams.
If the venerated Robinson had occasion to write to the Governor of Plymouth, 0 that you had converted some, before you had killed any, - it was not because these were wantonly destroyed, or hunted down as tawny and bloody salvages nor because their moral ignorance and wretchedness were not distinct objects of early and intense solicitude. In less than two years, one of the Plymouth settlers was specially designated to promote the con version of the Indians; and as early as Dec. 1621, Elder Robert Cushman made an appeal to his friends in England, in behalf of those poor heathen. In 1636, the Plymouth Colony provided by law for the preaching of the Gospel among them.
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