Spaniard and Moslem meet, to ask the price Of cotton, "strictly prime," and "common" rice. I saw a Duke and Knight together meet; Low bent the Duke-yet not at valor's shrine Alas! alas! this week-day, work-day life- All that consoles us for its weary strife, And all that gives to time its little zest, Should be, at most, but fancy's transient beamFade in a tableau, vanish in a dream! PHILIP OF POKANOKET. BY GEORGE F. MAN. To close this protracted drama so prolific in tragic incident, and worthy to fulfil the destiny apparently assigned him of becoming the sepulchre of Indian glory, now appeared upon the stage, Massassoit's second son, Alexander's brother, Pometacom or the famous Philip; a man of comprehensive vision, profound policy, enterprising genius, subtile address, lofty soul, and the keenest sensibility; one of those At extraordinary characters, (met with from time to time in the history of mankind at impressive distances from each other) who are brought forward, if not wholly formed by the course of events, but, under the particular circumstances of their coming, seem expressly empowered by heaven to spread havoc and desolation, and to attest the divinity of their mission by exultingly pointing to the wounds which they sink into the very hearts of their oppressors. a subsequent period, after the catalogue of injustice and cruelty had been greatly swollen by the English, Mr. Hubbard, the devout historian of Massachusetts, tells us, that nothing had transpired to warrant the discontent of Philip, and the historian of Massachusetts would have us believe, that the confederate colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth and Connecticut had been lulled into the most fatal security by the peace, the harmony and feeling of brotherhood, which their mild, just, merciful, generous and disinterested policy towards the Indians had universally diffused. The people of Plymouth, too, through their Governor, make it a matter of great merit and praise, that their solicitude for the Indians increased exactly in proportion as the objects to which it was directed were made to decrease; that, when they had de prived Philip of nearly all his lands, they sedulously betook themselves to devising means to ensure his possession of the residue; that, for leaving him little or nothing, he was amply compensated by the consciousness of increased security in the enjoyment of that which was left; in short that they were at especial pains to draw around the remaining territory of this former sovereign of the forest a most beautifully constructed fence, which, though it might incidentally serve to coop Philip in, and present, in more definite outline, to his mind the image of what he had become, and, under the continuing tutelage of his protectors, might still farther expect, was wholly designed to protect him against the intrusion of the whites, or rather such of the whites as might not as wisely have considered as them-selves, that there is a point of suffering beyond which endurance ceases, and as nicely weighed the farthest limits of practicable oppression. 3 But imagine yourself to stand where Philip stood; to be what Philip was,-qualified by natural capacity and also from position to contemplate fully and comprehend exactly his peculiar situation, to look forward, backward, through and beyond things. Recall to mind the first coming of the Europeans, their exasperating aggressions, the depopulating pestilence which followed in their train, the arrival of the Pilgrims, their suppliance and humility in weakness, the generous hospitality which made them strong, or the kind forbearance which permitted them to become so at the hazard of its noble authors, the strength which warmed into life their injustice, their continual and never ending encroachments upon-or artful appropriations of Indian lands, incited by avarice and assisted by superior knowledge; their gradual usurpation of power over the persons and liberties of independent nations,-with no pretext but religion, with no authority but the charter of a king beyond an ocean three thousand miles in extent, to whom these men owed nothing, of whom they had received nothing, wanted nothing and knew nothing but through the delusive tales of his grasping subjects; the formation of treaties not understood, entered into under compulsion, and for the sole benefit of their contrivers, their arbitrary exactions under them and severe inflictions for their non-fulfilment by the Indians, their own unscrupulous violation of them, the extinction of a whole people, prefaced by the slaughter of their chiefs and the usurpation of their soil, the assumption of a wasting and harassing supremacy over the Narra ganset Sachems, in return for the most generous offices, the murder of the noble Myantonomy for sheltering a fugitive from their persecution, the last days of his aged uncle, Canonicus, descending to the grave amidst his own and his people's fears, their unvarying injustice to his successors, their distinguishing favor to, open encouragement or secret abetting and support of their butcher, Uncas, the treatment of good Massassoit, Philip's father, the exasperating to madness and death, Alexander, Philip's brother; or turning to the present and future, see Philip surrounded by living and suppliant memorials of English cruelty appealing to every sympathy that could stir a generous bosom ; the English, in spite of his remonstrance, still infusing into his people a taste for ostentation and cajoling them by traffic when force could find no pretext ; himself, in possession of comparatively a barren sceptre, the fruit of English friendship-fenced in already, and the whites still urging him, when shy, to further traffic, the fiery circle of civilization daily girting more closely its writhing victim! And he, alas, an object of hatred for his knowledge of the past, of jealousy, for the domain he still possessed, of suspicion, for the resources his genius could still command, and the multiplied powerful motives |