The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies [Vol. 11]

"If a man be wise, and his sachem weak, must he obey him?" At a meeting which Eliot gave to the squaws apart, the wife of Wampooas propounded the question, "Whether do I pray when my husband prays, if I speak nothing as he doth, yet if I like what he saith?"—"which questions were accounted of by some, as part of the whitenings of the harvest toward."1 Tahattawan, our Concord sachem, called his Indians together, and bid them not oppose the courses which the English were taking for their good; for, said he, all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion, under the power of the higher sachems, what did they care for you? They took away your skins, your kettles and your wampum, at their own pleasure, and this was all they regarded. But you may see the English mind no such things, but only seek your welfare, and instead of taking away, are ready to give to you. Tahattawan and his son-in-law Waban, besought Eliot to come and preach to them at Concord, and here they entered, by his assistance, into an agreement to twenty-nine rules, all breathing a desire to conform themselves to English customs.2 They requested to have a town given them within the bounds of Concord, near unto

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Title: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies [Vol. 11]
Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
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Publication: Boston ; New York :: Houghton, Mifflin,; [1903-1904].

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