Civilization and Barbarism: Illustrated by Especial Reference to Metacomet and the Extinction of His Raceauthor at the Riverside Press, 1878 - 186 pages |
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Page 99 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it; I have killed many ; I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country, I rejoice at the beams of peace ; but do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 48 - ... to the knowledge and obedience of the only true God and Saviour of mankind, and the Christian faith, which in our royal intention, and the adventurers' free profession, is the principal end of this plantation.
Page 11 - Taciturn, they are, it is true, when in company with white men, whose good-will they distrust, whose language they do not understand ; but the white man is equally taciturn under like circumstances. When the Indians are among themselves, however, there cannot be greater gossips. Half their time is taken up in talking over their adventures in war and hunting, and in telling whimsical stories.
Page 87 - I the said Sachem; Philip of Paukamakett,* do hereby bind myself, and such of my council as are present, ourselves, our heirs, our successors, faithfully, and do promise; in witness thereof, we have hereunto subscribed our hands, the day and year above written. [In the presence of the Court, The mark P of PHILIP. divers magistrates, &c.] The mark [ of UNCOMPAEN. The mark f of WOCORON. The mark 7 of SAMKAMA.
Page 175 - Indian princess and her child, sold from the cool breezes of Mount Hope, from the wild freedom of a New England forest, to gasp under the lash, beneath the blazing sun of the tropics ! ' Bitter as death ;' aye, bitter as hell ! Is there any thing, — I do not say in the range of humanity — is there anything animated, that would not struggle against this?
Page 95 - These parts were then covered with nations of barbarous Indians and infidels, in whom the "prince of the power of the air'' did "work in a spirit;" nor could it be expected that nations of wretches, whose whole religion was the most explicit sort of devil-worship, should not be acted by the devil to engage in some early and bloody action, for the extinction of a plantation so contrary to...
Page 11 - In fact, the Indians that I have had an opportunity of seeing in real life are quite different from those described in poetry. They are by no means the stoics that they are represented; taciturn, unbending, without a tear or a smile.
Page 174 - Haman, the children of whom were cut off by the sword of justice for the transgressions of their parents, although, concerning some of those children it be manifest, that they were not capable of being coactors therein.
Page 87 - I do promise to send unto the governor, or whom he shall appoint, five wolves' heads, if I can get them ; or as many as I can procure, until...
Page 99 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him no meat ; if he ever came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of the white men.