| Show 40 aft mal nf ory A 0 sawas C 1 I 1 wow 6 v vor I 1 by iby ELMO almo SCOTT WATSON arim III years celebration of cc y I 1 american indian 1 day I a y a which Is observed on n tho the B j fourth friday ln in septem jl I 1 her finds plans under way for honoring a great indian I 1 famous tor for tits his war against tile tho whites but a man of abilities and ono one who judged by any just standard was a patriot and a hero Met acom his fits father cachela of tile the called him blai but tho the whites who nho felt the force of bla wrath knew him anding as kinta philip or phillp of they all but exterminated his people they hunted him tave tu earth artIA and killed him and they subjected subject eJ ilia his body to indignities as 03 barbarous na 03 any inflicted ilk by their savage en enemies emles and now ahrea hundred years later tits liis memory Is in to bo be perpetuated in a shrine tobe to be erected by descendants of BOIMO of the roen men who fought tits his tribesmen A massachusetts arche archaeologist archeologist and I 1 historian lat orlan it II F pa jr of vail rail iziver has purchased tho the historic ridge in known ns its BI ait hope tho hocq of king philip and there will bo built n fireproof memorial for housing indian relies relics a yort table tabio shrine of new england indian dilatory tho the alt aft liopo reservation la 19 a tract bract of more than acres and contains many points of historic interest among them ora are the spring where king phillp drank tho the rocky throne chrono on on a hillside where the cami ganong leader held ilioyd his councils with ills his brayes and tho the swamp he ha was killed by the ilia men led by capt church in this reservation joo tao to Is tho lie ground where 80 86 bushels of zorn corn were vore raised by the tha indian en ell and given eh en to the starving by who itea iles burled on a if a low fow miles away th tha story of lang king Is tile the story of tho the lender leader of a lost cause sicha chi impSon mj aon of a d weaker race whose attempt to stoy stay the onrush ot 0 the con whites was foredoomed fore doomed to fa ure lire ilo iio was tile tho first great indian chief to attempt a confederacy erney of the tribes toi to resist tho the whites and he ha camo nearer succeeding in life hla plan than did pontiac Pont lac tecumseh maeh or any other red leaders who followed in Us tits footsteps foot stepi Illa ni atory toTy has milt litin king philip to commemorate the heroism of hla his life and death says bays ono one hIst historian orinn ito ho almost mal man belt a king by Us lila marvel ous energy find anil put among the now new gingland Kii gland tribes had the appos in power nm b li it little leali vealer er lie he might have founded a temporary kingdom on the ashes odthe et the colonies repe atell istona apon tits lands and liberties Massa massasoit continued in hla his role of friend of the white man alan to the tiny of lits lis drath tn in 1002 near the close of ills we ho he had taken ills two sona son Warn autta and to plymouth anil and requested the governor in token of friendship to give elvo then llcy english names to autta was giver given tile the nume dt Al erander and to td blet acom the nume of philip and charged both of them to continue tits hla policy of friendliness to the Un lingl gilah tali but dut alexander who succeeded wassa massa bolt as sachem Bache iu found that difficult for is as the number of white settle settlers settler rd rf in cren sed their desire for more landin land la creased and the saw their territory passing rapidly into the hands of the whites moie blore than that the kindly feelings that had bid prevailed between tho the two races began to give way to suspicion and hatred on oa both sides and to harsh treatment of the red men at tho the hands hailds of the white alexanders friendship became noticeably tice ably less iola ancho and ho was summoned sani monod to plymouth to answer to charges of plotting against the english alexander refused to come coma and he was brought by force this indignity ln throw threw him into a ango and ile he became seriously ill dying upon ilia his return trip to the ilia lands la in island ilia wife We tamee and ills brother philip both believed that ili he had been poisoned by the english and resolved to avenge his fits death hut but philip who succeeded him as sachem clearly understood the power of the english and ild did not intend to matte make tho the mistake of acting too hastily vor for nine henrs after tits his elevation to so choro chem he devoted ill his energies ener glea to observation had preparation for forthe the impending struggle gleo 1 philip made every effort to 40 1 late guns guna and ammunition tor for tits ills war alora pull nud even tried to obtain the formula for making gunpowder succeeded in getting a large number dumbier of firearms had and many of hla nien men become became expert luar marksmen kamen all of had not gone unnoticed illy by the colon lata who were uneasily aware that a durk dark cloud of disaster was hovering over loer them finally la in 1071 philip was summoned to a council cil nt at taunton to explain the suspicious acta of lila ills tribesmen lie us its sorted that he was prepa preparing ring for de bense against the denied any hostile intent toward tile english signed a now new treaty anti agreed to surrender all ills hla g guns urs lift ho did elvo up P somo 70 of tha weapons owned by hla fits tribe but immediately after his return to mt hope continued con d to go forward with hla his preparations tor for war tile the next years benr pence peace prevailed but still the uneasy feeling that flat they were on the verso verge ot of war troubled the colonists by this ebli time philips plans had matured and lie he had determined upon opening hostilities in the spring of 1070 no ile become moro independent and bold in lili his attitude and when tile tho governor ot at massachusetts summoned him to another counell council to make a now treaty sent back this haughty reply your governor Is but a subject of ring king charles of 0 england I 1 shall not treat with a subject I 1 shall only treat with the king my brother when he bo comes 1 I am ready at about this time too a rhode island settler who was a good friend ot of tho tale indian leader tried to dissuade him film from war phillps reply iq 1 historic iio said the english who canna came first to td this country were but a handful of people forlorn poor and distressed sty sly fattier father did nit all in tits his power to serve sene them otters others came their numbers increased my bly father coun counselors elors were alarmed they urged him t to 0 destroy the english bafo before re they became becam e strong enough to give law to the indians indiana and take away theli their country my aly father was also father to the english no ile remained their friend experience shows that his counselors were right the english disarmed my P people eople they tried them by their own laws and assess assessed ed damages ray my people could not pay sometimes the cattle of the english would come into the cornfields of my people tor for they did not make fences like the english I 1 must then if ell be seized and confined till I 1 sold another tract of my country for damages and costs coats thus tract after tract tr actis is gone but a small part odthe of the dominion of my ancestors remains malins re I 1 anra a in determined not to ih live e till I 1 have no country cour itry 11 despite i plans to open the war in the spring pring s of 1070 the conflict was precipitated in the summer of 1075 with the f famous m ous attack by the indians op on tile the to town wn of swansea vor for the next fourteen months the war raged with great fury of 00 english towns in the war area 62 52 yere were attacked and 12 were destroyed for it a time it looked ns as though philips dream of extinction of the tinted hated white invaders of ills his country was to be realized hut but as the tha colonists began to recover from the havoc which philip had find wrought in the early weeks of tho the war the tide turned in their favor some of tits his allies were defeated others deserted him and began to help the english the appointment of copt capt benjamin church a brave and ful soldier aa commander of the colonists forces added to several acts of treachery by hla his own people spelled doom dooin for or the indian leader philip been became me it a fugitive hunted from place to place like a wild animal ills ilia wife and only son were we captured tur edana and sold goldas as slaves in the west indies aay heart breaks said bald philip when lie he heard of this now I 1 nm nin ready to die finally his hiding place was betrayed to the english by the brother of an indian whom philip had slain for prop proposing to seek peace with tho the inglish I landing finding tits hla camp surrounded the chief attempted to lee flee along a path guarded by a soldier and tho the indian traitor the soldiers gun missed fire but that of the indian ined with two bullets and a double charge of powder brought the chief down cis as ho he ron ran philips conquerors proved that thai they were but little less savage than lie he had been an indian executioner was ordered to cut ot off ills his head and quarter tits his body ills hta head was sent gent to plymouth and there exhibited on a gibbet for 20 yeura years such was tile the fate ate of phillp philip wrote edward everett ure no had bal fought a relentless war but he fought tor for ills his native land for tho the mound that covered the bones of his bla parents lie he fought for ills his squaw and papoose no I 1 will not defraud them of the sacred names which our licarta understand he fought for his wife alfo and child today a monument stands at plymouth erected there during tho the pilgrim tei tercentenary centenary celebration in 1020 which perpetuates the fame of massasoit Massa as the friend of tile the white man soon another memorial Is to rise to tits hla son king phillp philip whose fame faino also deserves to be perpetuated even though lie he wat was the enemy of the white ninni m na for king philip was a fighting ninn man and a patriot and the kindlier kin judgment of a later day will no longer deny him the honor due him |
