The leader of the Pilgrim Fathers left England because he would have been hanged for his religious beliefs If he had remained. He was ready to sacrifice life Itself for the things in which he believed. He was a refugee for some time. bUt finally escaped from England in the Mayflower and landed on What were at that time the inhospitable shores of New England. in search of religious liberty. Those who characterize as hypocrites those men and women. many of whom laid down their lives in the first winter of their residence in New England. are worthy of language which I think this Chamber would not deem it best to entertain.