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(1§88?-1682) revolted from the Pequot Indians in 164§ and became chief of the Mohegans. He made treaties of peace with the colonists, and in 1637 greatly a isted Colonel Mason's expedition against the Pequots, for which he received part of their land. In 1643 he defeated Miantonomo, chief of the Narragansetts, and put him to death. He was always friendly to the whites ahd faithful to hid treaties. Unclé Sain. An explanation which has been offered for this phrase is that the ‘‘U. S.”’ on some Government supplies in the War of 1812 was humorously declared to be the initials of one Uncle Sam Wilson, a contractor. * Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” first published in the National Era, at Washitigton, froni June, 1851, to April, 1852, and appearing in book form in Boston in 1852. Mrs. Stowe seems to have been at first disappoihted as to its succe , but during the next five years 500,000 copies weré sold through the States. It served to stimulate abolitionists’ sentiments in a remarkable degree, stirring to their profoundest depths you sands of minds in the North which could never have been reached by politicians. It played no small part in creating an anti-slavery party, though its delineations of outrages perpetrated upon the slaves were in a great measure in is leading and the work of imagination.