Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-01-30

lures Of the institution TO which refer and in |
is scantv columns Of intelligence may be found
thrilling accounts Of the bsrosrous murders Of
masters and crews by the hands Of their slave
cargoes
The case of the Amistad negroes bad lie occa-
siOnsl parallel in the colonial history OF the
rafhc-excepting that the men Of New England
had a sympathy az home in the 18th and 18th
centuries; which was justly withheld from their
Spanish aud Portuguese imitators in the 18th.
As the advantages Of advertising came to be I'M
derstood. the descriptions or slave property be-
came more frequent and explicit.
Negro men. women and children were mixed
no in the sales with wearing apparel. Gold
Watches, aud other Go0d>-"very good Barba-
does Rnm" Is offered with "a Young negro that
has bad TIE small pox"-and competitors offer
Likely negro men and women just arriveP'-
NEGRO men new and negro bows who have been
IN the country some time, and also lust ar
rived. choice parcel OF negro boys and girls ="
g A likely negro man born in the country aud
bred farmer, ht Tor any service, "a negro w0-
man, D years old. with boy about months. -
&c, and likely negro woman about l9 wears
old and a child about six months of age to be
sold together apart" must conclude these
extracts
At this point it may be necessary To interpose
caution with reference to the judgment which
may be pronounced against the policy which has
been lluslrared in these notes: and recent wr
ter OF English history has clearly stated our
own views, that his language requires very little
change here.
1t would be to misread history aud to forget the
change of times, to see in the Fathers of New
/ England and their successors mere commonplace
/ slavemongers; TO themselves they appeared
the elect to whom God bad given the heather for
an inheritance; they were men of stern intellect
and fanatical faith. who believing themselves the
tavorites of Providence, initiated the example
AMI assumed the privilege o.. the chosen people,
and for their widest and worst acts they could
/ claim the sanction of religious conviction. In
/ seizng and enslaving Indians, and trading for
negroes, they were bet entering into possession
OF the heritae OF the saints; and New England
had to outgrow the theology of the Elizibethan
/ Calvinists before il could understand that the
| Father OF Heaven respected neither person nor
color. and that his arbitrary favor-if more than
"A dream of divines was confined 10 spiritual
privileges : Compare Froudes Hist. of Eng,
! VIII. 4S0.
! Ii was not until the struggle on the part of the
coloni>ts themselves TO throw off the fast closing
shackles of British oppression eliminated in open
resistance TO the mother country. that the incOn-
sistencv of maintaining slavery with hand
while pleadng and striking for freedom with the
other. compelled reluctant and gradual change
in public opinion on This subject
Ii is true that at no period of her history was
Massachusetts, without her protestant" against
the whole system; but their example was power
less in their dav and generation. The words and
thoughts of Williams an Ellet, Il Sewell, and a
Dudley fell unheedei and unnoticed on the ears
and hearts OF the magistrates and people of their
day; as the acorn fell two centuries ago in the
forests by which they surrounded
H.. Il.