1605. CONNECTICUT, Government in.
—The nature of your government being a
subordination of the civil to the ecclesiastical
power, I consider it as desperate for long
years to come. Their steady habits exclude
the advances of information, and they seem
exactly where they were when they separated
from the saints of Oliver Cromwell. And
there your clergy will always keep them if
they can. You will follow the bark of liberty
only by the help of a tow-rope.—
To Pierrepont Edwards.
Ford ed., viii, 74.
(W.
July. 1801)
