As for the Indians, they were destroyed. Their great sachems had
fallen. Anawon, Canonchet, Philip, were no more. Nor had their
fighting men survived them. Their towns, of which they had many, were
burned. And why should the humble wigwam remain when the heroic spirit
of its occupant had departed?
And, worse than all, the women and children had been massacred or sold
into slavery.
----"few remain
To strive, and those must strive in vain."
Peace came; but--sad thought--there was no treaty of peace. It was a
war of extermination. Not often in the history of the world has it
happened thus. The colonists believed that they had been fighting the
battles of God's chosen people. Mather says, "the evident had of
Heaven appearing on the side of the people, whose hope and help were
alone in the Almighty Lord of Hosts, extinguished whose nations of
savages at such a rate, that there can hardly any of them now be found
under any distinction upon the face of the earth."
At some points in New Hampshire and the district of Maine, the fires of
war flickered ere they went forever out. Omitting comparatively
unimportant incursions, the Indian wars of Massachusetts and New
Plymouth were ended. The existence of there hitherto feeble
settlements was rendered certain. Although political and religious
controversies occupied the attention of the settlers, they yet found
means to cultivate the arts of peace.
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