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guished Pequots. She was laying one finger upon 
the Thames River and another upon the Housatonic, 
while she sent parties of settlers to Fairfield and Strat- 
ford, thus curtailing and invading New Haven’s natu- 
ral limits. “In union there is strength,” and so the 
towns of the New Haven colony united themselves 
into a little federal republic. 
I need not pursue this subject, for I have said enough 
to indicate the points which concern us to-day. Letme 
only mention one interesting feature of the events which 
annexed aristocratic New Haven to her democratic 
neighbour. When I say aristocratic New Haven, I am 
not thinking of dress and furniture and worldly riches; 
yet it was a matter of comment that the New Haven 
leaders were wealthy, that panelled wainscots and costly 
rugs and curtains were seen in their houses when there 
was as yet nothing of that sort to be found in the three 
river towns, and that they were inclined to plume them- 
selves upon possessing the visible refinements of life. 
The policy of their theocracy toward the British crown 
was very bold, like that of Massachusetts, but it was 
imprudent inasmuch as they were far from having the 
strength of the older colony. It isa thrilling story, that 
of the hunt for the regicides, and Davenport’s defiant 
sermon on theoccasion. It was magnificent, but it was 
not diplomacy. On the other hand, the policy of Con- 
necticut at that time was shaped by a remarkable man, 
no less than John Winthrop, son of the great founder 
of Massachusetts, a man of vast’ accomplishments, 
scientific and literary, a fellow of the Royal Society. 
Inheriting much of his father’s combination of audacity 
with velvet tact, he knew at once how to maintain the 
rights and claims of Connecticut and how to make 
