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

We have copied several articles from the New
york Journal Of Commerce upon this subject
which have attracted general attention. and de
serSedly so. As that paper states they have
already done great good in showing that the SUI
periority over their fellow citizens which has
been claimed by some foolish New Englsnders
has no foundation, and that Mr.. CHARLES SUMNER
knows little about the history Of his Own State or
else wiIfally misrepresents il. The Boston rad
csIs have been especially disturbed by the histor-
icsl verities produced. and which stand as
history in spite Of Boston CLOSES. We need
no, pursue the subject; but the writer in
the Historacle Magazine. whom We Quilted
In our first article, has been engaged
collecting facts which are Of importance. We
transfer 70 our columns parts Of an elaborate and
important article from the January number Of
that excellent magazine We do not know who
is the author. but have reason To believe that be
IL gentleman distinguished in historical circles
His work is purely historical, aud we respectfully
refer TO this article all those gentlemen. editors
and Others. who have been attacking US for the
past few weeks with so much ferocity After
this. the people will know something about the
Puritans. what they were, and for what they are
TO be admired.
Ii is unnecessary to reciie the astounding ex
posures made by this writer. We have hereto
fore confined our remarks chiefly to the public
acts Of the colonists. showing their open and
avowed principles. The present article exhibits
the results of those principles applied to indi-
viduai cases. What can be more surprising
than this record Of two young white children in
Massachusetts, condemned to be sold into slavery
in Barbados for attending Quaker meetingr
What more painful than the emotion OF Mr.
EvERErr over the fate of the wife and sou Of
The great King PHILiP. also condemned and
sold as slaves? The eloquencc Of Mr. EVER
EFT, however. affects US with surprise when
We read in bis late Gettysburg speech the
statement that 1.-The Puritans in 1910
and the Wings of less re5eIled against
arbitrary power in order establish constitution
nj liberty" He hal forgotten his Bloody Brook
speech of 1875, when he uttered at Gettysburg
the untruthful AMI even absurd passage we have
quoted l. il the atmosphere of Boston that
prevents men from adhcring to historic truth!
But there is another point. brought ont in this
article, which the Boston radicals must take to
heart The treasury of Massachusetts was en-
riched with the money. the proceeds of the slave
trade IL any one will count the interest on
the moneys received BY Massachusetts, for
the sale of slaves, he will find that
the gain has gone into the whole body of the
State property Every stone and brick of her
public buildings. every rided ensign of State
power contains part Of the price OF those slaves
Nor did we ever hear of restitution proposed bv
Massachusetts,. The simplest and best forms
perhaps would have been for the State to appro-
rriate a sum equivalent to the ascertained re
ceipts for the slaves sold with interest properly
compounded. and with that sum purchase the
freedom of Southern slaves and give them homes
in Massachusetts,. 1t would not be difficult to
make the calculation Of the result Perhaps
some tender consciences in Massachusetts, to day
will be disposed to make restitution by an appro-
priation to buy the slaves of Kentucky or some
other State Will the abolitionsts of Boston
consider the mstter?'