Everett's Addreſs at Bloody Brook, 1835; Church, 62, 63, 67, 68.
Well might the poet record his ſympathy for their fate—
"Ah! happier they, who in the ſtrife
For freedom fell, than o'er the main,
Thoſe who in galling ſlavery's chain
Still bore the load of hated life,—
Bowed to baſe taſks their generous pride,
And ſcourged and broken-hearted, died!"
or in view of this phaſe of civilization and progreſs, ſigh for that elder ſtate, when all were
"Free as nature firſt made man,
Ere the baſe laws of ſervitude began,
When wild in woods the noble ſavage ran."
In the proſecution of his admirable hiſtorical labors, Ebenezer Hazard, of Philadelphia, endeavored to aſcertain what was done with the ſon of Philip. He wrote to the late Judge Davis, of Boſton, who was unable, at that time, to give a ſatisfactory anſwer. Mr. Hazard died in 1817; but Judge Davis was afterwards enabled to furniſh a very intereſting account of the affair, derived from documents communicated to him by Nahum Mitchell, Eſq.
From theſe documents he learned "that the question, whether the boy ſhould be put to death, was ſeriouſly agitated, and the opinion of learned divines was requeſted on the ſubject. The Rev. Mr. Cotton, of Plymouth, and the Rev. Mr. Arnold, of Marſhfield, gave the following anſwer:
"The queſtion being propounded to us by our honored rulers, whether Philip's ſon be a child of
