Washington is promising * * *." There would have been a stirring as though a freshening wind of freedom was blowing across the new Nationbringing hope. not only to Touro Synagogue. but to all Americans that there would be no tyranny of a state religion. It is difficult for us as Americans today to realize how much President Washingtons statement must have meant at that time. Few of our history books after the period of Puritan landings in Massachusetts feature the impact that religious persecutions in Europe had to do with the flood of immigration to this country before 1800. and yet many of our colonies were founded by settlers who came to the New World seeking religious freedom. Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams. a separatist from the harsh Puritan regime in Massachusetts. His settlement attracted not only the Touro Congregation. who had followed the route of the Puritans through Holland to America. but Baptists.
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