Letter to a Class of Young Ladies, Upon the Study of the History of the United States
Letter to a Class of Young Ladies, Upon the Study of the History of the United States
Joseph Emerson
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It eofitains some things, ia- dsed, whidi I can by fio tteam a^rov^; especially a pai^ sage ralatang to the Peqoot war.-^t is iotinated, 4liat hhi tiM part of our fathers, that ^^war of extermtta^km" was neither necessary nor just. I need not again state to yos iBj reasons for most decidedly coademniBg such as opinion. Robbins^a VieWy S^e, Mr. Robbins's "View of the Fkd Planters of Sre# England," you may read with peribaps still greater advan- tage. It appears to be the fruit of mi^h more abund...ant .aad more criticaJ investigation; and, I think, a. more faiHi- fill exlttbitton of the character of our fathers. He does not diarge them with blood-guiltiness for defending them- selves against the deadly assassin. He very ably and almost entirely exculpates them from the charge of perse- -cution, which is so often mrged against them. That they w«re in some measure faulty, he concedes^ and suggests the extenuation, which the truth appears to require. Witt regard to Roger W^liams, however, he seems to make « doncossion, that the truth does not require.
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