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Title: The Relief Society magazine : organ of the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Relief Society (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Subjects: Relief Society (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
Publisher: Salt Lake City : (General Board of the Relief Society)
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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hat is now known as Plymouth Rock which, :n the hearts of a grateful people, has come to be a sacred rock, and over it has been erected a protecting canopy of grante. And because Plymouth Rock enshrines a principle more enduring than any stone, even the principle of individual liberty, freedom of conscience has become the touch-stone of these whole United States. Had the Mayflower taken back its passengers, had the little colony been wiped out, America might not today, be the land of liberty. Chief Massasoit it was who projected and saved the colony in its days of greatest peril. That is why a grateful people have forever linked the form and name of Massasoit with the sacred Pilgrim Rock. We marvel at the manner in which destiny prepared Massasoit and his tribe for the service they rendered. One year before the episode of the Plymouth Rock, the proud, cruel, and treacherous Wampanoags numbered thirty thousand Indians. An epidemic of fever reduced them to a tribe of bait three hundred, soft-
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TWO VIEWS OF DALLINS MASSASSOIf^tate Capitol TALLINS GIFT t6 UTAH 505^ ening them by the dreadful chastisement When the Pilgrims were in the midst of home building and house making, Massasoit, with sixty braves, all painted and dressed in battle array, suddenly appeared before the astonished newcomers, with proffers of friendship and proposals of a peace treaty for mutual protection.The treaty was made. Governor John Carver, for the colonists, and Chief Massasoit, on the part of the Wampanoags, (after smoking the Peace Pipe), signed the scrap of paper that was kept inviolate by Redman as well as Paleface for over half a century. Massasoit lived past his eightieth year. His days were full of good, gracious acts. He opened his wigwam to Roger Williams and all patriot fugitives, who suffered banishment into New England's wilds by the hand of bigotry which, for a brief period, swayed the governing powers of the New England Colony.Massasoit, historians tell us, was just, humane, honest, grave of counte

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