East Saginaw courier., 1866-05-16


and an immense assembly gathered.
s9r = To- - q. The body of
Crispus Attucbs, the mulatto slave,
had been placed il. Faneuil Hall, with
that of Caldwell; both being strangers
in the city. Maverick was buried from
his mothers house in Union street;
and Gray from his brothers in Royal
Exchange lane. The four hearses
formed a junction in King street; and
there the procession marched in col
umns six deep, with long file. of
coaches belonging to the most dis
tinguished citizens, to the Middle
Burying ground, where the four vie
tins were deposited in one grave"
We have taken some pains to bring
together from different. sources these
two scraps of history, because together
they illustrate Massachusetts,. EnoM
LoUpoN, who served through the-war
for pay and bounty, which his owner
received, and died pauper--rival
towns contending not for which should
but which should not have the honor
to afford him sepulcher-not even
his name finding place in the record
of the Boston historian CRIsrrs
ATTUcHs, vagabond and runaway,
leading group of fellows Of his own
kidney into riot which ended in the
loss of several lives of more value
than his own, is heroized and martyr
lied, buried with all the honors, his
carcass crowned with marble monu-
ment and poetical inscription, and
his memory celebrated by philan-
thropic historiographer, in terms Of
the warmest admiration.
One Of the objects of the volume
under review is to exhibit the errors
into which Boston historians, politi-
clans, lecturers and writer's upon the
law have fallen in respect to slavery
in Massachusetts, The Bay State has
been fortunate in its writer's of history,
in respect to their boldness of rassor-
tion; and unfortunate in respect to
their adhesion to facts. The asser-
tons of SUMNER, of PALFREY and Of
EVERETT, that no negro born in Mas
sachusetts was ever holden in slavery,
is contradicted and its truth disproved.
The statement of DANE, that the laws
of Massachusetts, alike protected the
persons of slaves and freemen, is like
wise shown 70 be without foundation.
The feelings and practices of,the mas
ters of Massachusetts toward their
slaves did not differ in kind OF in
degree fom those which prevailed in
Alabama. They were opposed 10 their
education, opposed to their baptism,
and cared for their services, not for
their salvation. 1t is also shown that
slavery was never abolished by legis-
lative act in Massachusetts,. Bills were
several times introduced in the Legis-
lature for the purpose, but they were
always defeated; and slavery finally
expired under a judicial construction
of phrase in the State Constitution
of 1880, which, neither by its trainers,
nor by the people was intended to
apply to the subject. Among other
documents whicn the work contains,
is one which, in the light Of present
conditions and states of mind, is pecu7
harly interesting. tits a Public Notice
to Blacks by the Superintendent of
the Boston Police, dated the 10th Of
September, 1860, naming two hum
dred and fifty negroes and mulattoes,
and commanding them, ''as they would
avoid tho pains and penalties of the
law in that case provided, to depart
out of this Commonwealth before the
10th day of October next"
Notes on the History of Slavery in Massa.
ehusetts, by George II. Moore, Librarian Of the
New York Historical Society. New York ID.
Appleton Co. Cincinnati: Rol ert Clarke 4 Co.
An Historical Research respecting rho opn,-
ocs of the Founders Of the Rcpublic on Negroes,