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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 5 (search)
h the messengers returned with the chickens, but Massasoit, finding his stomach come to him, .. . would not have the chickens killed, but kept them for breed. From far and near his followers came to see their restored chief, who feelingly said: Now I see the English are my friends and love me; and whilst I live I will never forget this kindness they have showed me. It would be interesting, were I to take the time, to look into the relations of Massasoit with others, especially with Roger Williams; but this has been done by others, particularly in the somewhat imaginative chapter of my old friend, Mr. Butterworth, and I have already said enough. Nor can I paint the background of that 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 opinio