he
celebrated Philip, the latter prepared for war. "And now," says a
reverend historian of the times, "war was begun by a fierce nation of
Indians upon an _honest, harmless_ Christian generation of English, who
might very truly have said to the aggressors, as it was said of old unto
the Ammonites, `I have not sinned against thee; but thou doest me wrong
to war against me.'" Fanaticism alone--deep, incurable fanaticism--
could have induced such a remark. Well may it be said, "We deceive
ourselves, and the truth is not in us."

And when the war was brought to a close by the death of the
noble-minded, high-spirited Philip; when the _Christians_ had slaked
their revenge in his blood, exposed his head in triumph on a pike, and
captured his helpless innocent child of nine years old; would it be
credited, that there was council held to put this child to death, and
that the clergy were summoned to give their opinion? And the clergy
_quoted Scripture_, that the _child must die_! Dr Increase Mather
compared it with the child of Hadid, and recommended, with his brother
apostles, that it be murdered. But these pious men were overruled; and,
with many others, it was sent to the Bermudas, and sold as a slave.
_Stern virtues_!! Call them rather diabolical vices. God of Heaven!
when shall we learn to call things by their right names? The next time
Governor Everett is called up for an oration at Bloody Brook, let him
not talk quite so much of the virtues of the pilgrim fathers.

This reminds me of a _duty_ towards this gentleman, which I have great
pleasure in performing. Every one who is acquainted with him must
acknowledge his amiable manners, and his high classical attainments and
power of eloquence. His orations and speeches are printed, and are
among the best specimens of American talent. Miss Martineau, in her
work upon America, states that she went up to hear the orator at Bloody
Brook; and, in two pages of very coarse, unmeasured language, states
"that all her _sympathies_ were baffled, and that she was deeply
disgusted;" that the orator "offered them shreds of tawdry sentiment,
without the intermixture of one sound thought or simple and natural
feeling, simply and naturally expressed." I have the Address of
Governor Everett before me. To insert the whole of it would be
inconvenient; but I do most unequivocally deny this, as I must, I am
afraid, to many of Miss Martineau's assertions. To prove, in this one
insta