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

80 S'toiie aIter the bme pItuAt0 anu >uAii
forthwith bring them to the Treasurer to be dis
posed Of TO The use Of the Government as afore
said Plymouth Records. XI. 242
mere were a few, about i've or six. exceptions i
made 10 this order. in favor Of certain Indians !
who bad been assured by Captain Benz amin /
Church that they should not be sold to any
242
The Massachusetts, General Court made an
order IN 1871. - May. that the Indian children.
youths or girls, whose parents bad been il hOstl |
ity with the colony. or had lived among its enc
mics IN the time of the war. and we're taken by /
force. aud given or sold TO any ofthe inhabitants |
oil this jurisdiction should be At the disposal of
their masters or their assignes, who were 10 in
suuct them in ciyilits aud Christian religion
Mass Records V. 1876 Note the distinction
between friendly Indians whose children were TO
be held until twenty-four years of age both in
this order aud in Plymouth Records. '. 207, 233
The court In the following year (l61o) found
case to prohibit call and every person and per
sons within our jurisdiction or elsewhere. to buy
any of'the Indian children of any of those our
captive salvages that were taken and became our
lawtuli prisoners in our late wars with the lndl
ans, without speacial leave. liking aud approba
ton of the government of this jurisdiction. -
10. 253.
In the following wear 1879 the following
entry appears in the Records:
In reference TO several Indians bought by
Jonathan Hatch of Capt Church. the brothers of
the woman, deSreng she might be released. ar
peared IN Court with the said Jonathan Hatch and
came TO composition with her for the freedom of
both her and her husband which two of the
three Indians above named and her brothers
paved on that accompt the sumo of three pounds
silver money or New England, and have engaged
TO pay three pounds more in the same specie and
then the said man and woman TO be released;
and for the third of the said Indians, il being
younge, the court have ordered that it shall
abide with the said Jonathan Hatch until it at
tans the age OF 81 years. and then be released for
ever. Plymouth Records, VI, Is
Ii were well if the record were no worse. but
ia ali this is to be aided the baseness OF treach
cry and falsehood Many Of these prisoners sur
rendered and still greater numbers came in vol
UNFAIRLY To submit upon the promise that they
and their wives and children should have their
lives spared and none of them Transported out of
the country. In one instance narrated BY the
famous Captain Church himself. less than
"eight score persons" were without any regard
to the promises made them on their surrendering
themselves, carried away to Plymouth. there sold
and transported out of the country" Church,
%. "a. Al. 81, 81
Nor did the Christian Indians or Praying Iudi
escape the relentless hostility and cupidty of
the whites Besides other crueltes. instances are
not wanting IN which some OF these were sold
slaves, and under accusations which turned out
to be utterly false and without foundation.
GOOkiu History OF the Christian Indians
Some OF them are probably referred to bv
Eliot in his letter to Boyle, Nov. u. 1864, in
which he saws, IL desire 10 take boldness To pro
pose request. a vessel carried away great
number of our sur erised Indians in the times of
our wars. to sell them for slaves but The natious
whittier she went. would not buy them Finally
she left them at Tangier; there they be. many
as live, or born there An Engishman, a
mason, came thence to Boston, he told me they
desired | would use some means for their return
home | knew not what To do In il; but now ii
is in my heart To move your honour, 50 To medi-
tate, that they may have leave to get home either
from thence hiiher or from thence To England
and so to get home If the Lord shall ple,>e TO
move your charitable heart herein. | shall he
obliged IN great thankfulncSs, and am persuaded
that Christ WILL at the great day, reckon it among
your deeds of charity done unto them for his
names sake. - VI H. 5. Col. III l63.
Mr. Everett, one of the most elaborate of
his finished and beautiful orations. has narrated
the story OF two OF the last captiyes in that in
famous war. in passage OF surprising eloquence
which we venture to vote:
President MaSher. in relating the encounter
of the lst of August, 1876 the last but one of
the war, says Philip hardly escaped with his lite
also. He bad lett his PEACE behind him. also his
squaw and son taken captive. aud row
prisoners At Plymouth Thus hath God brought
that grand enemy into great misery before he
quite destroy him. Ii must needs be bitter NJ
death 10 him to lose his vile and only son for
the lpdians are marvellous foud aud aifectonate
towards their children) besides other relations.
and almost all his subjects, ana country also
"And what was the fate of Phillips wife and
his son? This is a tale for hush ,nds and wives,
for parents and children. Young men and wo-
men, you cannot understand il What WAS the
fate OF Philips vile aud child? She is woman,
he is a lad They did not surely hang them.
No, that would have been mercy. The boy is
the grandson. the mother the daughter of good
old MaSsasolt, the first and best friend the Eng
isis had in New England Perhaps-per
haps Philip is slain. and his warriors seat
tered 90 the four winds, they will allow his wife
and son 10 90 back-the widow and the orphan
To finish their days and sOrrOws in their native
wilderness. They are sold into slavery, West
Indian slavery an Indian princess and her child
sold from the cool Oreezes of Mount JPe, from
the wild freedom of New Ensla forest. to
gasp under the lash beneath the blazing sun of
the tropics. Bitter DEATH eye, bitter hell.
Is there anything-l do not say in the range of
humanity-s there anything animated. that
would not struggle against thiSf'-l Everett's
address at Bloody Brook 1895; Church. o. 63;
81, 6S
Alter the death OF King Philip. some of the
Indians from the west and south of New Eug
land who had been engaged III the war. enie AZ
ored 10 conceal themselves among their brethren
OF PenacOck who had not joined III the war. and
with them of Ossapy and PigwacAett who had
made peace
BY a .'contrivance" (as Mather calls it, which
savors strongly OF treachery, Jour hundred OF
these Indians were taken prisoner, one halt at
whom declared TO have been accessories in
the late rebellion. and being "ssnt 10 Boston,
seven or eight oi them vino were known 10 have
killen any Engisnmin. were condemned and
hanged; the rest sold into slavery in foreign
parts.
Some of those very Indians. who we're thus
seized and sold, afterwards mase their way home.
aud found opportunity to satisfy their revenge
during the war with the French aud Indians
known as King WIiiism's War Belkuap, /.
l43. .245; NJ ,ther's VI gnala. Book VII 80.
(699).
An Iudian girl brought fifteen pounds in Sa-
lem, in August, no Coll. Essex Institute, |,
ii.
The highest price paid for any Of cargo
broasat into Boston in 1921, was eighty pounds.
FEELS Salem, Ii. 4l6
The Guinea Trade it known then.
since known and branded by all civilized nations
~ piracy, whose beginning we have noticed. con
tiaued to flourish under the auspices of M,ssa-
chusetts merchants down through The entire colo
NAL period. and long after the boast. Declara
ton of Rights in $50 had terminated the legal