History of Swansea, Massachusetts, 1667-1917; - citizen hylbom blog

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a pole, and was thus exposed at Taunton, to the view of her captive
subjects. They immediately recognized the features of
their unfortunate queen, and were so affected at this barbarous
spectacle, that we are told they broke forth into the 'most
horrid and diaboUcal lamentations!"
Weetamoe was among the last of PhiUp's friends, and
although we have no account of the manner in which he received
the news of her death, yet there can be little doubt that
it affected him deeply. Perhaps his subsequent visit to
Pocasset was occasioned by the grief he felt for one who had
ever been faithful to his interests. Her death, and the subsequent
treatment of the corpse, awaken many reflections in the
mind; but no one at the present time will attempt to justify
the conduct of the colonists. Yet this conduct, that we now
condemn, displays the fearful extent to which the passions of
man will sometimes bUnd his judgment, leaving him no longer
willing to listen to the dictates of justice or humanity. More
than once, during the latter part of Philip's war, must
the most skeptical reader have been convinced of this
truth; and the reader of general history need not confine his
researches to Philip's War, in order fully to establish it.