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Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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er was broached upon the green, and bottles of strongerdrink provided for those who wanted it; all the drums, guns, and pis-tols that the settlement possessed were called into use for the noise 1625.) MORTON OF MERRY MOUNT. 425 indispensable to a public rejoicing; roaring a song of Mortons inpraise of drink and * Indian lasses in beaver coats, the hilarious crewdanced about the May-pole, with Indian women for partners in theabsence of ladies with more clothes on. The sober Puritans would have been shocked by such festivities, even had they been free from theimmoralities of excessive drinking,of the evil example and opportu-nity thus given to the Indians, andof the debauching of their women.But a stronger feeling than disgustand disapprobation was arousedwhen Mortons people, in their tradefor beaver skins, — on which theymainly depended for their subsist-ence,— sold arms and ammunitionto the Indians, taught them theiruse, and employed them as hunters.The safety of every present and
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Festivities at Merry Mount. future colony was put in jeopardy if the savages were to have suchmeans of mischief. There could no longer be a silent submission tothese dangerous proceedings at Mount Wollaston. Morton was deafto remonstrance, and other remedies had to be resorted to by the com- 426 THE PILGRIMS AT PLYMOUTH. (Chap. XV. mon consent of those at Plymouth and others living at different placesabout the bay and on the Piscataqua River. Captain Standish —Captain Shrimp, Morton calls him in his Nev^ Canaan, where hegives ludicrous names to all who condemned his conduct — was sure tocome to the front in such an emergency, and he, in command of a fewmen, was accordingly sent to Mount Wollaston, by common consent,to arrest the offender. Morton says they found him at Wessagusset,where, it seems, there still remained a small colony. They took him,he declares, by surprise ; but he warily permitted them to eat anddrink to satiety while he was carefully abstemious; when they, over-co

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