AN INDIAN MEMOIR.
As monumental bronze unchanged his look:
<span style="color:grey">A soul t pity touc never shook;
<span style="color:grey">traind from ree-rockd cradle to his bier,
<span style="color:grey">tremes of good and ill to brook
<span style="color:grey">Impassive--fearing but the shame of fear--
<span style="color:grey">stoic of t a tear.
It is to be regretted t ters ed of ttlement of America given us more particular and candid accounts of ters t ?ourisy anecdotes erest; ture, and s man is in a comparatively primitive state and ion.
ting upon tracts of ure--in nessing, as it ive gro, and perceiving tic qualities ivated by society vegetating in spontaneous hardihood and rude magni?cence.
In civilized life, ence, of man depends so mucantly acting a studied part. traits of native cer are re?ned aened do is termed good-breeding, and ises so many petty deceptions and affects so many generous sentiments for ty t it is dif?cult to distinguisi?cial cer.
trary, free from traints and re?nements of polis degree a solitary and independent being, obeys tion or tates of ; and ttributes of ure, being freely indulged, gro and striking.
Society is like a la surface; udy Nature in its y must plunge into t, must explore t stem torrent, and dare the precipice.
tions arose on casually looking tory terness, trages of ttlers Ne is painful to perceive, even from tial narratives, steps of civilization may be traced in ts o ility by t of conquest; erminating ion s tellectual beings s, of Natures sterling coinage, rampled in t.
Suce of P, an Indian Massacts and Connecticut.
distinguisemporary sacts, tern tribes at time of t settlement of Neive untaug generous struggle of gasp in try, a ory or a t of renory and ?t subjects for local story and romantic ?ction, t scarcely any autic traces on tory, but stalk like gigantic sion.*
* ing ts of ticle t a celebrated Englis ory of P.
tlers are called by ts, ?rst took refuge on tions of tuation o t degree gloomy and disening. Fe number rapidly perisribes, exposed to t arctic er and tudes of an ever-sing climate, to despondency but trong excitement of religious entuation ted by Massasoit, c extent of country. Instead of taking advantage of ty number of trangers and expelling territories, into o conceive for tended toes of primitive ality. o ttlement of Netended by a mere ered into a solemn league of peace and amity, sold tion of to secure for tever may be said of Indian per?dy, it is certain t tegrity and good fait inued a ?rm and magnanimous friend of te men, suffering to extend to strengtraying no jealousy of ty. Sly before o Ne of peace and of securing it to erity.
At to protect tipulated t no furttempt so dra, ?nding tinately opposed to any sucion, t act of o bring tler, recommending mutual kindness and con?dence, and entreating t ty e men and be continued aftero ribe; o experience titude of we men.
son, Alexander, succeeded uous temper, and proudly tenacious of ary rigy. trusive policy and dictatorial conduct of trangers excited ion, and erminating ribes. o incur tility, being accused of plotting ts to rise against t is impossible to say ed by facts or is evident, and overbearing measures of ttlers t time begun to feel conscious of to groreatment of tives. tco seize upon Alexander and to bring s. raced to s, and surprised at a ing-er toils of t and trage offered to y so preyed upon to to a raging fever. ted to return ion of sending tal, and before im to t.
tamocet, or King Ptlers on account of y spirit and ambitious temper. togeterprise, of great jealousy and appre and implacable ility toes. Sucurally mere intruders into try, o savage life. rymen melting before territories slipping from tribes becoming feeble, scattered, and dependent. It may be said t ttlers; but ure of Indian purcion?
ty bargains tness in traf?c, and t accessions of territory by easily-provoked ilities. An uncultivated savage is never a nice inquirer into ts of las are all by before trusion of trymen nohers.
But y and icular indignation at treatment of , reneract tlers, and resided peaceably for many years at Pokanoket, or as, it seat of dominion of ribe. Suspicions, ?rst but vague and inde?nite, began to acquire form and substance, and lengttempting to instigate tern tribes to rise at once, and by a simultaneous effort to t is dif?cult at tant period to assign t due to tions against to suspicion and an aptness to acts of violence on t of tes t gave o every idle tale. Informers abounded enance and res success ain and it carved out empire.
* Nool, Rhode Island.
tive evidence on record against Pion of one Sausaman, a renegado Indian, ion imes y t evinced ted for some time as Pial secretary and counsellor, and y and protection. Finding, ty ron, over to tes, and in order to gain tor ting against ty. A rigorous investigation took place. Ps submitted to be examined, but not ttlers, oo far to retract; termined t Prust, and o insure ility; according, to truction o ty. Sausaman, treacly aftero tribe. tried, and on testimony of one very questionable ness ed as murderers.
treatment of s and ignominious punis of raged ted the passions of Philip.
t orm, and ermined to trust e men. te of ed and broken-ed brotill rankled in ragical story of Miantonimo, a great Sacts, s, exculpating y, c tigation. Ping-men about rangers t o join to tts for safety, and winually surrounded by armed warriors.
ies ate of distrust and irritation, t spark to set tted various petty depredations. In one of ttler.
tilities; to revenge th colony.
In times ions of tate of traction and tuation among trackless forests and savage tribes s to superstitious fancies, and ions ful cc and spectrology. to a belief in omens. troubles old, by a variety of t and public calamities. t form of an Indian bo Neants as a quot;prodigious apparition.quot; At on, and oto; piece of ordnance, ;* Otill sunss; bullets seemed to to pass ao t tain monstrous birtook place about time ?lled titious in some toentous sigo natural po ts udes, teors op branc, trees or disrupted rocks, and to times strike trangely amidst tillness of udes. tartled some melancions, may ed by tened to avidity ever is fearful and mysterious. titious fancies and trongly ceristic of times.
* tory.
ture of test t ensued en distinguis of tes it ed efulness of tural rigagonists: on t of t ion of men fearless of deato expect from peace but ion, dependence, and decay.
ts of transmitted to us by a ime, of ti?able, sanguinary atrocities of tes. Praitor, considering t rue-born prince gallantly ?g ts to avenge to retrieve tottering porangers.
t of a aneous revolt, if suc not been prematurely discovered migs consequences. t actually broke out a ail, a mere succession of casual exploits and unconnected enterprises. Still, it sets fortary genius and daring proions t , simple facts, y of expedients, a contempt of suffering and ion t command our sympathy and applause.
Driven from ernal domains at Mount o t and trackless forests t skirted ttlements and impervious to anyt a or an Indian. ogetorm accumulating its stores of misc a time and place least expected, carrying o tions of t ?lled ts of a distant gun tle urn ts of ts and suddenly disappearing, as tning imes be seen playing silently about t is breempest.
times pursued and even surrounded by ttlers, yet Pen escaped almost miraculously from toils, and, plunging into t to all searcil some far distant quarter, laying try desolate. Among rong ss of Nes, brambles, rank tered and mouldering trunks of fallen trees, oversain footing and tangled mazes of t impracticable to te man, ty of a deer.
Into one of t s Neck, o pursue o venture into tful recesses, ed trance to to build a fort of starving out t Ped t over an arm of t, leaving to tribes of Massacts and try and tening ticut.
In tery in wed errors.
. try abounded possessed of ubiquity, for in of tended frontier an irruption from t took place, Po be its leader. Many superstitious notions also ed concerning o deal in necromancy, and to be attended by an old Indian cess, ions. tly ty or to act upon t of t and tition instances of savage warfare.
At time t Ped unes e condition. ed ?g almost time of adversity , cts. onimo, t sacioned, after an tal of tely put to deat tigations of ttlers. quot;; says t;of all o; ainly s and injuries and timate avenger of o take an active part in t generous countenance and support. t once drey of t ermined to strike a signal blo s force ogetts, Plymouticut, and into tt country in ter, ive facility and rable fastnesses to the Indians.
Appretack, Canonc er part of ores, togetribe, to a strong fortress, uated upon a rising mound or kind of island of ?ve or six acres in t of a s ructed and skill vastly superior to i?cation, and indicative of tial genius of two cains.
Guided by a renegado Indian, trated, to trong umultuous. ts attack, and several of t of?cers of storming tress, ser success. A lodgment ed. t to anoted ting of terans to pieces, and after a long and bloody battle, P, reated from t and took refuge in ts of t.
tors set ?re to t; t outrage overcame even toicism of ttered by tive ruction of t;t; says a contemporary er, quot;ted a most ing scene, so t it greatly moved some of t; ter cautiously adds, quot;t ter y, and t principles of t;*
* MS. of the Rev. . Ruggles.
te of t is icular mention: t scene of instances on record of Indian magnimity.
Broken do faito o ted all overtures of peace offered on condition of betraying P quot; it out to t man, rat to t; royed, ry e by to o ticut, o tern Indians and laid e several of ttlements.
Early in ted on a ion, y co penetrate to Seaconck, in ty of Mount o procure seed corn to plant for tenance of roops. ttle urers ry, and re of tt, resting at some ucket River, ime, Canonc despatco top of a neigo bring intelligence of the foe.
Panic-struck by troop of Engliserror past tain, stopping to inform he danger.
Canonc sent anot, old tis sa immediate ?igtempted to escape round t ile Indians and a feest of test pursuer close upon , t and belt of peag, by .
At lengt slipped upon a stone, and o so struck , as er; and urned ten stick, void of strengt;
to suc, being seized by a Pequod Indian distance of tance, t vigor of body and boldness of . But on being made prisoner t arose moment es given by repeated ?ased and prince-like ioned by one of t came up attained y second year, ted y contempt upon enance, replied, quot;You are a c understand matters of your brot;
ted offers o ion of submitting ion to t ed to send any proposals of to t body of s, saying t oes, t deliver up a ampanoag nor t t o justify ily ans ot;o ;
So noble and uns, so true a ?delity to ouc Canonc o ness of ence of deat;t or ; at Stoning hree young Sachems of his own rank.
t at t fortress and t al bloo tunes of King Pual attempt to raise a irring up to take arms; but, tive talents of a statesman, s eracted by ts of ened enemies, and terror of to subdue tion of tribes. tunate cain saims to igue and to t attacks by ured; ao captivity; and in one of o leave o the enemy.
quot;; says torian, quot;being t prevented, but augmented ted al feeling of tivity of er of s, bereavement of all family relations, and being stripped of all outs before aken a;
to ?ll up tunes, o plot against by sacri?cing purcy. treacs, ts of etamoe, an Indian princess of Pocasset, a near kinse of Prayed into tamoe time, and attempted to make ed by sarved er-side. But persecution ceased not at tcroubling, ection to tcast female, ionate ?delity to her kinsman and her friend.
of unmanly and dastardly vengeance: t upon a pole, and taunton to tive subjects. tely recognized tures of tunate queen, and ed at tacle t old to t;most ations.quot;
ted miseries and misfortunes t surrounded reaco is said t quot;ererprise inguiso pity nor any arm t could bring deliverance. ity band of follorue to e fortunes, to ty of Mount dre among ty, no of ter picture of itute and piteous situation t furnising the hapless warrior whom he reviles.
quot;P; ;like a savage , ed by t last o ired, friends, into a so keep till to execute vengeance upon ;
Even in t refuge of desperation and despair a sullen grandeur gature o ourselves seated among ed fortunes, and acquiring a savage sublimity from ted, but not dismayed--cruso t not ed--o groer, and to experience a ?erce satisfaction in draining t dregs of bitterness. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it. te to deat of peace. tim made rayed treat of ain, A body of ely despatco to surround tle iest follo ; all resistance empt to escape, but by a renegado Indian of ion.
Sucy story of t unfortunate King Ped ly cer suf?cient to ae and respect for amidst all tant er feelings of connubial love and paternal tenderness and to timent of friendsivity of ;beloved ; are mentioned ation as causing misery: triumply recorded as a ne treacion of many of ions o ed and to . riot attaco ive soil--a prince true to s and indignant of ttle, ?rm in adversity, patient of fatigue, of y of bodily suffering, and ready to peris and amable love of natural liberty, o enjoy it among ts of ts or in ty spirit to submission and live dependent and despised in ttlements. ities and bold acs t orian, ive in ive land, and doempest, a pitying eye to weep o record ruggle.