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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 5 (search)
ivalent, and as if the parties needed only a pun to make friends. It is doubtful whether the arrival of a conquering race was ever in the history of the world marked by a treaty so simple and therefore noble. This treaty with Massasoit, says Belknap, was the work of one day, and being honestly intended on both sides, was kept with fidelity as long as Massasoit lived. Belknap's American Biography, 2.214. In September, 1639, Massasoit and his oldest son, Mooanam, afterwards called WamsuttaBelknap's American Biography, 2.214. In September, 1639, Massasoit and his oldest son, Mooanam, afterwards called Wamsutta, came into the court at Plymouth and desired that this ancient league should remain inviolable, which was accordingly ratified and confirmed by the government, Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims, 194, note. and lasted until it was broken by Philip, the successor of Wamsutta, in 1675. It is not my affair to discuss the later career of Philip, whose insurrection is now viewed more leniently than in its own day; but the spirit of it was surely quite mercilessly characterized by a Puritan min