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And neither in 1644 nor in 1648 would Massachusetts listen to the appeal of the Rhode-Islanders to be admitted into the confederacy of the New England colonies. The desire of Massachusetts appeared to be to hold the heretics and their new country under a kind of personal and territorial vassalage, as was interestingly shown in the case of Mrs. Hutchinson and Samuel Gorton.
The chief justice of Rhode Island, Hopkins, has refused to honour the order to arrest these Rhode-Islanders." "Pirates!" said my father. "Pirates, if you like. We shall all be pirates before long." "Well, Gainor, is that all? It does not concern me."
The hostility of Massachusetts and Plymouth towards the Rhode-Islanders seemed at first increased; and the principle of self-government, to which the Rhode Island townships owed their existence, delayed their confederation.
For want of a naval force on the Lakes, a necessity which had been pointed out to the Government by William Hull, then Governor of the Northwest Territory, before the declaration of war, the posts of Chicago, Mackinac, and Detroit were taken by the British and their Indian allies in 1812, and kept by them till the next year, when the energy and perseverance of Perry and his Rhode-Islanders created a fleet upon Lake Erie, and swept the British vessels from that quarter.
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