Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1866-08-07
IFFom the N. Y. Freeman's JOurual.l
{ The New Puritan Slave Trade.


ened as TO the principal part taken by New
England Purltans in the prosecution and
continuance of the African slave trade. Tc
complete that history it will only be necessary
for some investigating Yankee to make the
tour of New England, village by village, and
count up how many pianos, harps, dinner and
/ tea sets, pieces of gold aud silver plate, gold
watches, jewelry, &c, &C., the Puritan chap
lains, along with other patriots that went to
! the war, stole from the slave holders. by way
of executing justice, and furnishing them for
having bought the poor Africans from the
! Yankees
There is. however. another kind of slave
trade to which the brood Of the Puritaus are
turning their attention. 1t is OF much i'm
portunce that the history of its progress be
written step by step, and that all possible
light be thrown upon it US it goes on. We
call, earnestly.oou those who are interested,
especially in the matter of the race or the
creed OF the new Slaves" to obtain exact
statistics, and to put them in the way of
reaching the public.
1t IS hardly necessary to say that we speak
OF the tiade carried on by a combination of
kidnapping societies. of which the "Children's
Aid society" is one, in the children of Irish
Catholics These children are stolen in New
York, carried west and sold for money
We proceed to prove this latter fact, as
we'll as the safe of the children ut the West,
by a letter procured by our good correspondent
at Dayton, Ohio and sent to us for use. 1t
is in reply to our demand for specific proofs
of the alleged outrage. Here is the letter of
the zealOus Catholic Missionary priest at
Piqua, Ohio:
l do hereby certify, first, that there were
about sixty children (principally Catholicl
disposed of in Piqua on the :6th, l7tL aud
18th of March last.
Second-That their arrival here was an.
nounced by placard some days beforehand.
Thi:d-Thut no certain homes or situations
We're provided for these children before they
arrived in Piqua, and that the public were
invited to come and select boys from the
crowd.
FOurth-.That I, the undersigned, paid
the sum demanded for foe; this was forty
fire dOLh.r*. Others paid teeiVs dollurs f0r
Fifth-Some of these children, were from
R"ndniTs I>tond. l cannot say now if all
were from there. The parents of some of
them are living, others are orphans.
JAMES j. O'DoNoHUE,
Pastor of St Mary's ChurcI. Piqua, o.
Our Dayton correspondent tells US, farther,
that lately number of such children were
brought to Eaton, Preble county, Ohio, aud
that an acquaintance of his bought two of
them for ftceny 6OEkdrS apiece!
Here is traffic in human flesh and blood
for you! Here is one more cumulative and
needless proof of the damnabe hypocrisy of
the Puritans! They have deluged the land
i'll blood, destroyed the constitutional liberties
of the States, and burdened the people with
the most stupendous debt. on the plea that
St0Oe'y as 'cichch That was in the case of
the barbarous and degraded negroes! At
the same moment. they are engaged in selling
out in Ohio the bright witted and comely
sons OF Irish parents, hidmuPped in New
York.
MORE PRoTEcTIoN NEEDED-And now
we have developments of IA wholesale slaueh-
ter of infants in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
1t appears from the c0roner's inquest that
Mrs. ROYers has received infants, generally
1llegtlmate, aud from month to a year in
age, to board; sometimes she has had as many
as nine boarders OF this class at once. Last
week she had six. There was a coroner's
Inquest on one of them last Saturday, On
Monday nenghbor looked in and saw the
unbured body, black, covered with inaggots,
and the eyes not closed. An infant then
IN the wOman's arms was apparently in a
dying condition. OF the one dead, witness
expressed the opinion that the wretched
infant ''had sucked its fingers to the bone.
and quite raw in the asonies of starvation -
Several similar cases were mentioned in con
necti"n with this Herodiau hotel, or among
infant bOarders lately taken away from Mrs
Rogers. The bill of fare, to use the express
sion Of the witness. was flour Cruel scared
with milk" 1t was also stated that some of
the mothers hoped the children would die,
thus relieving them of paying a dollar week
to the woman. All this in Massachusetts,
but as the l:ttle sufferers were not in L Iuis-
lana, nor "colored," nor reconstructed, nor
drawing government rations of white sugar.
nor costing the country $4,000 annually,
there is no talk of establishing, branch of
the Bureau at Lawrence as a means of pro-
tecting infants from starvation. kven Sumner,
who has offered petitions for pianos, new
shoes, suffrage, or similar luxuries for half
the reconstructed negroes in the country,
has not seen fit to present this Lawrence
matter to the Senate.