The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-26

have their hands tied with ropes plainly to be seem
Others still would be tempted to sign away their
Souls one woman pulled iron spindle
from spectre, and locked up The spindle outbound il
taken away another tore of portion of the sheet
nourished at her by demon others were branded $50
that they viii bear tie marks till dying day. by
unseen spectres others were bitten others swoonei
hyElbe hands were laid on them others rallied against
the church aud the government (tak ing opportunity
no doubt TO do this with mpuny under the glise of be-
ing afflicted BY witoh) and for all these infections
old woman or other punished Mather solemny
retais all these things and adds Flashy people may
burlesque these things but when hundreds Of the most
sober people in a country, where they have as much
mother wit certainly the of mankind know them
be true nothing but the absurd and forward spirit Of
radcism question them'-an arguraeat,m al hgni-
negn which will be gladly used by our spiritualists
TREATMENT OF THE INDIANS.
According to the Purtans' own account, the 'main
end of their plantation" the propagation
Of the Gospel by the conversion of the Indians
and this, says King james, "was the royal nten-
ton in granting their charter If they had gone TO
America as money Makers might have been expected
that they would following the example of other adven
turers have oppressed the Indian tribes but theirs
"a plantation Of religion, and not plantation of trade
they assure How, then, the fact
that they neglected the main end Of the plantation al
most entirely Hutchinson, In his History says-"Ons
possed design Of the colony charter the Gospezng
the natives The long neglect of any attempts this way
be excused The Indians themselves asked how
happened, Christianity was OF such importance, that
for six and twenty together the English had said
nothing 10 them about IT," Like of their descend
ants, the Purtans preferred guns Bbles-Sharpe's
rifles would have been fashionable they had been invent
ed. King Phillip cheated into anger then hunt.
cd like wild beast, and his son. nine old,
demned to death, and spared only to be sold sa-
very. (veretts 0ratons Other captive Indians shared
the same fate. The iistory of New Hampshire quoted
by Beknap says hat OF the Indians taken in King Phil
lips few were put TO death, but most sold
into slavery in foreign countries" Lands taken
without recompense, and If the Indians complain,
declared the entire tribes destroyed as in the case
OF the Pequods. Even the women, they out Of
the meeting house Qutchnsons History murdered cap
tive Indians and Trumbu in his History OF Connecti.
cut gives abstract Of the manner IN which the Pu
ritans proparated the Gospel Though the first plant
of New England and Connecticut says he, "were
OF eminent pety and strict morals yet like other
good men, they subject 10 misconception and the
influence of passion Their bcheading sachems whom
they took in killing the male captives and enslavng
the women and children Of the Pequods after it
was finished, was treating them with a severity
which, ON the benevolent principles OF Chris
tianity it will be difficult to justify. Tho executing
all of those murderers who active in in kill
ing any OF the English people, and oblging all the lndi
an nations TO bring IN such persons or their heads was
an act OF severity unpiacsed at this day by civilized
and Christian nations The decapaton OF their enemies
and the setting of their heads upon poles a kind Of
barbarous triumph too nearly corresponding with the
amples OF uncvilized and pagan nations" That
strongly as Trumbu dared put the case, writing as he
was for New Fnganders; but the facts are there to
speak In bitter invective. In 1915 law passed.
"tbat whatsoever shall shoot of any gun, ON any
ever, except att an Indian or woolfe'
shall be fined Indians and wolves soon became
equally scarce under this regimen. '0h, what a hap
py thing would II have been" cries John Robinson,
had you converted some before you killed any" law
that Indian grain should not be bought and that Indians
should not be associated with, bears perhaps hardly
upon the English upon the Indians but the in
which the Purans dealt with the Indians generally may
be by law passed in Hartford 1896 First 1t Is
ordered that Indian chiefs shall make good trespas
scs which may in their vicinity unless they
produce the offender and show that he stranger and
next as appears ''after full debate and hearing that
Soheage had committed outrages upon the English yet
because, was conceived the first breach the
said English part, all former wrongs whatsoever
mitted on both sides" This is the 'you take the
and the turkey; or the turkey, and you the crow"
principle exactly. If the Indians dissatisfied they
had their remedy-the men to be killed. and the women
and children enslaved.
SLAVERY AMONG THE PURITANs.
But Indians the only slaves which tho Puri-
tans held And their connection with negro slavery
interesting well important the full oomprehen
sion of their characters, must be made for few
extracts in regard to 1t, from the replies series Of
queries propounded by Judge Tucker of Virginia and
answered by the Rev DR. Belknap abolitionis, April
81 1875. In 1880, says Belknap, Gov. winthrop and
others found Samuel Maverick residing upon Noodles
Island and in 1888 John Jossyn camo from England
lodged with him. Jossyn noticed that Maverick had
young and handsome negro woman . who had been
queen her country ? and whom the other negroes
with great respect One morning he found her in
great rage and upon nqnirng the reason found that
Maverick, DESTROYS Of securing SO fine breed"
had commanded young 10 commit rape upon her.
she refusing 70 keep company with him. This FIRST
introduction 20 the Puritan slavehoders Of Massachu
sets, whoafe Dol uhnspply reefTeuo Ia Uhcie lohs
Cabin"
In 1916 law was made prohibiting the buying and
selling OF slaves except those taken in lawful and
duced TO slavery for their crimes by Judicial decision
these TO have the allowed
by the law Of Moses but how the legality OF this slavery
was TO be ascertained the Law does not state.
In ossyn's description Of New England, l6o3I673"
he says Of the people Of Boston-"They well accom-
modsted with servants; Of those some English
and some negroes" Belknap says,-"B BY the
inquiries which l have made Of oldest
merchants now living, cannot find that more
tIraeS In Npur IN RfCfan
employed in the African slave trade The distilled
here was the handspring of this traffic The slaves
purchased in Africa chiefly sold in the West Indies
in the Southern colonies, but when those markets
were glutted and the price low, some OF them were
this port. One gentleman says he remembers two
three. ! remember one, between thirty and forty
Years ago Q1651,75, which consisted almost wholly Of
children. At Rhode Island the disticry aud the
African trade prosecuted to greater extent than In
Boston, and believe other seaport in Massachusetts,
had any IN the slave business. Sometimes
theshodc Island vessels having sold their prime slaves in
the West Indies brought the rest Of their crgoes hither
for sale since this commerce Inns declined the town OF
Newport has gone TO decay"
"siany conscientious persons who would by
have engaged directly in the trade to Africa yet when
negroes brought hither had no scrupe 10 buy them
because they supposed that education, n land OF
Gospel light was preferable TO one in 'beathensh
darkIe-s- They tontcrded that the buying them and
holding them ia ervtude might be justified by the
pie Of Abraham and other good men Of antiquity and as
his servants crcurncscd, theirs baptiscd."
Responding 10 queri-s in regard to the con-
dton Of the negroes, Belknap says:-''They were
srkly, ami not hard worked" ''1hcy were in
vertored and rated taxable property but not so at
tached estate 70 be sold with IT," "There was
law against their manumson unless their masters
bonds that they should not sickness decrepitude,
become burdens to the public The marriage Of blacks
with whites was prohibited They forbidden 10 be
Ia the after nine y NJ, pain OF being sent to
the hoIsc of correction II s very evident where the
South ioEnd IT. slave code.
Iut the Judge inquiries whether the blacks are any bet
ter olfree, ard Mr.. Bcknnp rcplies-f comparison he
made between the former and present condition Of this
class people, in the New England states, II may he
said that unless liberty lie reckoncd a compensation
many haroshps the former condition Of most Of them
~ ct, Tahlc to the present
Judge Tucker wishes 10 know how the negroes obtained
their freedom: aud 10 his remarkable reply Mr. Bcknap
D. Il forward idea which might have saved Seward,
Greeley Co. l. great deal OF trouble. What rs the use
If lahorirg Tree the slaves, when, " tho principle
here laid down IL true, they all free the moment
the Tee aratn OF Independence adopted and
now ii III lave mind ~ assert II. This Is for the
consider alton Of the republican supreme Court, which is
to le may be. Tie present constitution OF Massa-
Oh s,ts,n Bek.ap says "was established in l7s0 The