The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-05

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. slave in the West Indies, TO vhi,h b /
vss sentenced. When ws oonsieer that the ne
Of TIE American Indian vas one peculiarly free from
ressTaint-thst y W. passsa - cool forests, and |
able to see how sseuasy csssl was the oct Of selling
him foi slave 70 labor on plantations In the tropics
The coloGists, - use their Own words, given 10
in nuctcrs 70 one Of their officers insisted ION the
and bafbarisns - we'll in war ~ In other nOgotia
tions.n These words show that q ey did not regard
the Indians - Christians; and their conduct TO-
ward such Of th.s unhappy racs q fell into their
rotbing improper In being slave traders, 20 long .
the creatures cold were NOT Christians-a sentiment
common throughout ChIistendom, AMI which had
from about the same tine that The Mssachusetts
PuritsDs were selling Indians ~ slaves BY the hun.
dIeds, they were also engaged in taking up collec
tions in their churches for the redemption Of some
New England and Old England, had been captured
by c0rsairs from Aeiers or Hallee-wicked Mussul.
mans, who treated Christians as cavalerly as the
latter treated Indiana and ''niRsers" and VINO
would have eapped the Lady Arabella herself INTO
one Of their hafms, had she fallen into their hands,
with az little compuncti0n a. Barbarossa bad pro.
posed to transfer that pearl of Italy, Giulia de
Coinage, from her husbands palace to that OF Sui
have rot mentioned the treatment Of the Indians
by ancestors for the purpose Of showing that inc
latter were cruel but to prove that they upheld and
in slaves and that they had Of that adherence
Of slavery which Mr. Whittier snd oths writer's have
attributed to them. In selling their Indian captives,
taken In war; they acted neither better nor worse
captives to white traders, by whom they were taken
TO the West Indies, where they may have encoun-
tered the Pequod, or Narrsgansetts, or VAN.
ranosgs, disposed Of by the grim gentlemen OF
Mas sacbusetts after having been deluded into put
ting fai h in "the brave cd generation.v'
The restless adyentnrers and speculators' men,
toned by Mr.. Whittier as having been driven
across tie by the civil conte,tons OF England.
ard upon whose shoulders he seems disposed to lay
the increase Of slavery here, in reality lever mad
an existence. The civil war began in l642, and
lasted until toward the close OF 1851 when the battle
Of Worcester gave ascendancy to the Pnritans, who
held it until the restoration In 1GG0, though after
Cromwell's death tier power was much resuced.
OF those who came here between 1912 and 1860,
such came, and had shown q disposition to NEEDLE
with the discipline Of the day and place, they would
have been very summaiily dealt with. "The brave
cid era OoS g. q tS the height its
much eated because of the brilliant victories of its
brethren IN England. We may feel certain that Long
NaSstOn Moor and Naseby were as sincerely
rejoiced over in Boston as in London. Some
Of the Massachusetts, Puritsns, indeed, went
back to England, for the purpose Of taking part in
the contest, and fought valiantly against the house
Of Stuart After the restoration there arrivals
here from England, bu. they we're net men of the
! sdventur!Dg and specializing class. They were Pu
ri.sns, who fed from before the avepging sword of
the race upon whom their hands had so heavily
borne. At their head stood Coffee and Whalley,
the regicides, whom the Puritans, In obedience to
the higher law would lot give up to their enc
mics, to be iDsnlted and tortured, aud butchered.
Were such men likely TO aid in establishing slavery
here, il indeed it were thing abhorrept to Puri
fsnism? Certainly not. 1t is wrong to say that the
Puritan sentiment ami slavery-wss overbone by
IN intrusive sentiment, when we rec )llect how
prompt the Puritans were in-deslng with anti
i whpcp 10 W0
pened to inter to their ideas of the fitness Of
things The tbeocratic government endured in Massa
chuetts long after it had been abolished in terms,
and would have su1iced in the time th at Mr.. Whit
tier refers TO, 10 have had the slave trader hewn
10 pieces il he bad been another Agog, stoned
like ActiaD, II there had been puritanical anti
slavery sentiment in existence. Ii may not be use
legs TO ado, that Governor Biadstreet himself was
one Of the clc original Pulitans who had taken part
/ in founding The colony.
The Scots aud hiss mentioned by Brsdstreet were
victims ct the great civil war. Both parties were
guilty OF the cruelty Of selling prisoners, in the
cfthe Stuart times and down even so late as 1745-
46. Macauley's eIAAuen. account has made ms I'll
familiar with the tieatmens of many OF Monmouth's
followers, ia 1865. The word slave, however, does
not express the condition Of these unfortunate peo
pie. They were simply transported political con
| yicis.
10 my rcxt, ! .hsll bring the subjsct down 20 The
abe btion Of slavery here. The CORES oondence be
tween DR.. Adsms and Mr.. Wise has given t, il q
Lew interest. ALG0MA.
BosrON, Nov 8, 1854.
Genyal WVscns OGe TO Withdy ac--M Mr.. Gard
no's B0idness-The Uhigs DOZEN mpoa Hin
n Whg Proposition to hndici the Vh,ic. Raor
Mining Ordtr-- Mr.. Banss' Prospects Wing
Nominations, &c.
Matters are coming to head here very fast.
Yesterday, the republican State Committee hal be-
lore them letter from Gen. Wilson, formally witt
drawing himself from the position of the republican
larty's TomiLee for Governor. In this letter, the
Genera positively denies having made any arrange
ment with Mr.. Gardner; but whether he did 80 or
not, the idea has complete possession Of the public
mind that he and Mr.. Gardner thoroughly under
stand one another. This idea is espe y dominant
in the free soil mind, and the opinion has been ex
pressed in very intelligent quarters, thst the vote
cast for Ger. Wilson willnot be grea. by one hall
as that which he would have received had he never
attended the Know Nothing State Convention. He
has oyer6OLe the matter; for the opinion expressed
ny the late Mr.. jonas Chnzz'ewit .ha. a man can't
do too much FOR himself, is to be taken with some
grains Of allowance, should be regarded from the
point Of view that its apented utterer gave i.
The Republican Committee declined to accept Of the
Generals withdrawal but many believe that he will
withdraw in some other way, and will lot subjec'
himself to The humiliation Of rscevin.
Tut small vote, after hsyirg bee
buoyed up by great and not unfoundeo
hopes of achieving some striking success.
What renders, or will render, his failure tn more
painful is the extreme satisfaction that it will afford
the wings, who have always pursued Gen. VIII
tcn with the greatest rancor. He will be like TIE
dying Douglas in the old ballad
Earl Percy my fall
Mr.. GardIer Is supposed to have made a ten
strike by bis letters, not much from the senti
mel tn they contain as from the boldcess Of their
enc. The people like courage; and certainly Mr..
Gsfdrer has exhibited II. His manliness of expires
ion contrasts Btbly with the housing cowardice
hat ms tie leading trait In the characters ofmos,
sp,y 10 the pliir EFT question without tikng
months tine 10 ",hihk il over" II ia s,meth,pg
lew 10 bel old public stating his views in the
most open ind unequiyo,al manner and not after