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[Kundrick H. <li...@ra...>]

He law by frantic and almost incredible demonstrations; and a man named
Faubord endeavored to sacrifice his first-born son under a supposed
command from Heaven. The ministers and magistrates came to the
conclusion that the colony could never enjoy peace while the Quakers
continued among them. These sectarians were altogether unmanageable by
the means of ordinary power or reason; they would neither pay fines nor
work in prison, nor, when liberated, promise to amend their conduct. The
government now enacted still more violent laws against them, one, among
others, rendering them liable to have their ears cut off for obstinacy;
and yet this strange fanaticism increased from day to day. At length the
Quakers were banished from the colony, under the threat of death in case
of return. They were, however, scarcely beyond the borders when a
supposed inspiration prompted them to retrace their steps to Boston:
scarcely had their absence been observed, when their solemn voices were
again heard denouncing the city of their persecutors. The horrible law
decreeing the punishment of death against the Quakers had only been
carried by a majority of thirteen to twelve in the Colonial Court of
Deputies, and after a strong opposition; but, to the e