Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1836-02-26

and wives, for parents aud children. Young
men and women, you cannot understand u
What was the fate Of Philips wife and
chlld' She is woman, he is lad. They |
did not surely lang them. No, that would
have been mercy. The boy is the grandson,
his mother the daughter-In-law ut good
Massassoit. the first anh the best friend the
English ever had N New England. Per- |
haps--Derhaps. now Phlrp Is slam and his |
warriors scattered to the tour winds, they
wl allow MS wife and son to go back, the
widow aud the orphan. to finish their days
and sorrows in their native wilderness.
They were sold into slavery West Indian
slavery! an Indian princess and child, sold
from the cold breczes OF Mount Hope, from
the wrld freedom Of New England forest,
to gasp under The ia-h, beneath the blazing
sun Of the tropics! Bitter as death !" aye,
bitter as hell Is there any thing, do not say
IN the range OF humanity is there any thing.
animated, that would not struggle against
his Is there, do not say mau, who has
ever looked in the face of his sleeping
child; woman,
that has given suck and knows
How tender It's TO love the babe that milks her;
thing Of earth or of air, the lowest in ere.
alton, SO 1t be not wholly devoid of that
mysterious instinct which binds the gener
atoms of beings together, that will not use
he arms, which nature has given il, # you
modest the spot where its fledgllngs nestle,
where its cubs are crying for their meat
Then think of the country, for which
the Indians taught! Vino can blame them?
AZ Philip looked down from his seat on
Mount Hope, that glorious eminence, that,
Throne of val state, which far
| Oulshune the wealth Of Ormus or of Ind,
| Or where the gorgeous east with richest hand
Showers on her kings barbaric pomp and gold
AS he looked down and bebeld the lovely
scene which spread beneath, at summer
sunset the dis ant hIl-tops blazing with
gold, the santlng beams streaming along
the waters, the broad plains. the island
group, the majestic forests,-could be
blamed. if his heart burned within him, as
he Oeheld it ali passing oy no tardy process
from beneath his control into the hands Of
he stranger As the river chieitains-
the lords of the waterfalls and the noun
talnS, ranged this lovely valley, can it be
wondered at if they beheld with bitterness
the forest disappearing beneath the settlers
axe the finishing place disturbed by his
sawmllIs' Can we fancy the feeling with
which some strong minded savage, the chief
Of the Pocomtuck indians, who would have
ascended the summit Of the sugar. loaf
mountain, lrlsing, as it does before US at
this moment, in all its loneliness and gran
deur,) IN company with a friendly settler,
contemplating he process already made by
the white man, aud marking the gigantic
strides with which he was advancing into
the wild wilderness, should fold his arms
and say, White mon there is eternal war
between me aud thee ! quit lot the land
Of my fathers, but with my life.
"In those woods where bent my youth
full bow, | will still hunt the deer; over
wonder waters | will still glide unre-
ing waterfalls | will still lay up my win,
ter's store of food on these fertile mead.
ows will still plant my corn. Stranger
! the land is mine | understand no, these
paper rights. have got my consent, when
! al thou Sayelt these broad regions were
purchased for few baubles' from my ia.
! theirs. They could sell what was theirs
: they could sell no more. How could ms
father sell that which the Great Spirit sem
me into the world to live upon, They
: knew not VIVA, they did The stranger
5 came, timld suppant few and feeble
. -ano asked to lie down on the red man.
: bear SKIN aud warm himself at he red man:
fire. and have little piece of land, to rails,
corn for his women and chldren-and now
he has become strong, and mighty, ant
bold, and spreads out his parchment owe
the whole, and says il Is mine. Stranger
there is not room for us both. The Grea
p SoIrr has not made us to live together
= There is pp.son IN the white mans cup
: the white mans dog baris at the red mani
2 heels Ii should leave the land of m,
d fathers, WHITTIER shall fly? Shall | 90 t,
o the South and dwell among the graves q
v the Prqnnl,' Shall wander to The YVES,
= the ii nee Mohawk, the man-eater Is m
y foe. SnaII fly to the East, the grea
= water Is before me. No, stranger, here
y have lived and here will die ; and if her
I thpn abdoSt, there is an eternal war be
d tween mo an. thee. Thou hast taught m
thy arts of destruction; ;or that alone
= thank thee; and now take heed to III
1t steps, the red man Is thy foe. When tho
Il goest forth by day, my bullet shall whist
It by thee, when thou hest down by nigh
It my knife Is at thy throat. The noonda
II sun shall not discover thy enemy, and tn
IS darkness of midnight shall not protect tn
rest. Thou shalt plant in terror and wi
e reap in blood thou shalt sow the cart
l. with corn, aud will slrew it with ashes
!, thou shalt 60 forth with the sickle, and
If will follow after with the scaping knife
c thou shalt build and will burn, TIL I'll
lie white man or Indian cease from the lanc
= Go thy way for this time in safety--b BIT
IS remember, stranger, there is eternal WI
a between me and thee !"
OIL THE INFIDEL.
10 II Is an awful commentary on the do,
}, trlnes OF lnfdelty, that its most strenuol
Up supporters have either mlserablv talSfit
Il hni IN, ~, 9 Il