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The consciences of men ought to be free and unshackled so long as they continue moderate, peaceable, inoffensive and not hostile to the government. Such have been the maxims of toleration by which this city has been governed and the result has been that the oppressed and persecuted from every country have found among us an asylum from distress. Follow in the same steps and you shall be blessed. 1663 from the Directors of the East Indian company chiding Governor Peter Stuyvesant in regards to his bigotry, in the colony of New Amsterdam.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 03:30:48 +0000

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