Winthrop stood tall among his peers and community when he was acquitted. After his acquittal he felt it necessary to explain to the community how what he had done was justified. More specifically, how it was justified to exile two Hingham residents. Winthrop chose to talk about freedom. He speaks not of one, but of two freedoms; natural and moral. These two freedoms contrast in both origin and guidance. First, the main way in which these two freedoms, natural and moral, contrast is in their origin. John Winthrop states that natural liberty is “common to man with beasts and other creatures” (166). Natural freedom is a freedom with which man is born, even if he does not only preserve the heritage, since he must share it with the wildlife that arises around him. It is a freedom of extremely wild nature, which aligns man with the "beasts" among which he walks. Winthrop comments that “It is a freedom both towards evil and towards good” (166). Natural freedom does not intrinsically derive from either side of the coin, neither from good nor from evil. It is simply an innate inheritance given to e...