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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 5 (search)
at strange early society of Rhode Island, its reaction from the stern Massachusetts rigor, and its quaint and varied materials. In that new state, as Bancroft keenly said, there were settlements filled with the strangest and most incongruous elements . . . so that if a man had lost his religious opinions, he might have been sure to find them again in some village in Rhode Island. Meanwhile the old benevolent sachem, Massasoit, says Drake's Book of the Indians, having died in the winter of 1661-2, so died, a few months after, his oldest son, Alexander. Then came by regular succession, Philip, the next brother, of whom the historian Hubbard says that for his ambitious and haughty spirit he was nicknamed King Philip. From this time followed warlike dismay in the colonies, ending in Philip's piteous death. As a long-deferred memorial to Massasoit with all his simple and modest virtues, a tablet has now been reverently dedicated, in the presence of two of the three surviving desc