Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-12-23
From the Boston Traveller. !
Yours, mad as blazes
DENNIS O'LgART

Mr.. Everett, in his eloquent speech at the
Faneuil Hall UniOn-stving meeting, drew Il
most powerful picture Of the Consequence Of
a slave Instruction, illustrating his point
by citing the fact that, on a certain occa-
sion, in st. Domingo, the negroes had for
their stan ard white infant on a spear,
they having previously impaled the child
The incident was an awful one, and serves to
show how great an evil is slavery, seeing
that 1t could debase human beings 10 a con-
dIuon in which it was possible to perpetrate
Sd horrible piece of utterly useless cruelty.
Ii reminds US Of an incident of the St.
Bartholomew massacre. A child of one Of
the murdered PrOtestantS was taken up bv
one of the Catholic soldiers. and smiled on
the soldier, and put one of its little hands
out and s5roked his long beard, which flow
ed far down over his breast. whereupon the
soldier drove his dagger through the child's
body and carried it about on the weanon
This was done. not by a suddenly liberated
slave ln Haytl, bat by one OF the followers of
the Nalols or the Guises in chivalrous
France. There want a "nigger'' in the
Whole lot, siayers or slain, that did the
st. Bartholomew. Had the Reformation
never occurred. and had the French Protest
ants remained quiet, this incident never
could have happened. Perhaps the reader
may have heard of the massacre of the in
ants OF Bethlehem, by order Of Herod the
Great, which order that monarch issued in
the hope OF involving the infant Saviour in
the general massacre; and if the Saviour had
not been born ut that time, the order would
not have been issued. There wasn't q
"HSger IN That lot, either. Herold being
descended from ESau, while his victims
were descended rom Jacob, and the active
murderers were mercenaries of European o.
Asiauc origin. 1t may be that the reader
recoilects the massacre Of the Protestanrs in
savoy, when the Catholics, as Milton saws
IN has 18TH Sonnet, 'roll'd mother with in
tdnt down the rocks There. too. we
grleye to say, the 'nigger'' kept himself
most reprehensi5iy absent. Then there was
the French Terror TIME, when infants were
torn from their mothers breasts. and
thrown from pike to pike, in the hands. not
OF ''nlggers' IN iayti, but of white men in
the PLEASANT pays de France. The treatment
OF the Dauphln, a little boy, was inexpress-
IDLY shocking, and it was the work Of white
men, VINO acted under the orders of persons
OF education aud good social rank. The in
liant WHO was torn from its mother breast,
at winch 1t was IN the act of nursing at the
moment, IN order that that mother might be
hanged up on I'yburn thee, was not torn a.
way by black hands, the hellish deed being
done when Mansfield was at the head Of
English law, and George the Third was king.
When little children were killed at Delhi,
and Cawnpore. and elsewhere. in 1857,
there was not q ''nigger" concerned in the
butcheries. The man who sold ssthe tawnv
little prince" into tropical slavery.-King
Phillips son, and grandson of that Massasoit
who welcomed the pilgrims to New England.
and the last Of that aboriginal royal race
were our ancestors; and Mr.. Everett has de-
pieted their conduct in words that will en-
aure and be admired as long as humanity
shall exist on earth. If we cast no stones
until an innocent race shall be found, there
@lil oe as little of lapidation now as there
was IN Palestine, on certain occasion, in
the days of long ago,