The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1866-06-02
NIassachusetrs Slavery.

Nassachusetts Slavery.
We find the following article in the Chi
cagc Journal. 1t is . notice of a book latel
published by Geo. Fl. Moore, of New York
on the early days of Massachusetts.
Mr.. Moore's history would attract no more
| attention, aud create no more remark than
any other book that made present the past
but for the ostentatious pretensions of thai
| prosecuted people who became the most vim
dictive of prosecutors, and of that eXcusvsI y
anti-slavery people who became the trader:
| in and breeders of slaves-Indan, African
and hereto" Saxon The pious PuriIans
who let
There weak unknowing hand
Presume Gods bolts TO thrSw,
And deslt dsmnatios round the land
On whom they judged His foe"
we're so foully besmeared with the peculiar
| Institution" that our historian is constrained
| to say: 1.-The stain, which slavery has left
on the proud escutcheon OF Massachusetts are
quite as significant of its hideous character
as the satanic defence cf God and humanity
which accompanied the laying of the corner.
stone of the Shareholders contederacy.'
True to their habit of doing the business OF
the devil IN the. rhetorical livery of heATen,
the Puritan. slave mongers, the bigoted
.
stickler- for liberation, Invariably began the
description of their devitry by calling ou the
Lord. When o vessel, ap,ly named The
Desire, arrives in Massachusetts Bay from
the West Indies, whence she brought neg oes
tha. had teen s~arpea to the Sanf eee 81.
Indians, Governor Winthrop receives letter
to thIs effect:
"Mr. Endico,t and myself salute yo1 in
the Lord Jesus. We have heard Of dvis>
ion of women and children in the Bay, and
would therefore be glad of share, VIZ : n
young woman or girl, and boy, if you think
good. | wrote 10 you for some boys for Der
muda."
These I" "boys' were Indians, prisoners Of
war, whom the Puritars sen: TO Bermuda -
be exchanged for more tractable commodi-
ty in the way of persons held to service or
labor" Here beginueth the opening Of the
colonial slave trade. 1t pleased the Lord
to put many of the Pequods at Governor
Wln,hrop's disposal. the males of which he
shipped TO Bermuda, and the females he
distributed to the English towns Oar
Puritan ancestors had 4 weakness for - ke>
ly" .squaws. A Captain Ssoughton, " who
assisted Ia the work of discriminating the
Peguods. after lis arrival in the enemy 5
country" tells Governor WiaihrJp, through
the post, that,
"Bv this pInnacs you shall receive forty.
eight or fifty woman and children concerning
which there is one | formerly mentioned that
is the fairest and largest that | saw among
them, to whom | have given coat 10 clothe
her. II is my desire TO have her for servant,
if it may stand with your good liking else
not There is a littlh squaw that Steward
Cuc:nt des;r-.f; 70 whom be hath given a
Il L. l.
one 10 wit: a small one, that hath three
marks upon he sto mach. He desireth her, Ii
II will stand with your liking"
drawing Of the marks urcn the s'Om>
ach'' of The Lieutenant Is fair oae accom- pauy-
ing the Captains cPistie. Doubtless the
Lieutenant was gratiied.
One Downing, broiher-in>law OF the
Governor, write, him that be doubts whetE>
er t -oub be SIN to make war upon the
NarragarSeits, becauke they worship the
devil IN their 'poN>wows, and thes, ex-
claims the good brother.
IF the Lord should deliver them into our
hands. we might easily have men, women
and children enough to exchange for Moors,
which Will be more painful pIllage TO US than
we conceive, fer | do not see how We can
thrive until We get = stock Of slaves sufhcien,
TO do all our business, for Our child-ens chill
drcn will hardly see this great continent filed
with people 50 that CUR servants Will still de-
sire freedom TO plant for themselves. and not
stsy but for very great wages. And sup
rose You know very well how We shall main
tain twenty Moors cheaper than one Eng glish
secvan'. The ships tina. shall bring Moors
may COME home laden with salt which may
bear most Of the charge, if not all Of ii"
And when free labor became - cheaper" than
L II l.. -
abolishcd-is that it?
The Instructions of a mercantile firm to
tho Captain Of SLAYER, found on page G0,
are explicit and devour. The Fwor,hy Cap
tain is particularly enjomed ID get as good
a swap as lie can fo+ New England rum. and
IS finally " committed to the / in shty DisN
poser of all events
Boston newspapers are on file contain
ing Advertisements ia which 4" very good
Barbados RUN IL offered forIsale VIII - a
Young negro .ha: has had the small pox.
In one of thcsc we lsarn that Z" likely negro
woman abnu. nineteen years of aye. and a
child of six months, are to be Ecd together
OF apart
2S. 1850. has for :" sale negrJ child, soon
expected Of COOL breed = ID the Coatt-
mental Journal Of March 1, lis |, has :. to be
sold, All extraordinary likely gro wench, ls
wears old-has no notion OF irehdom-:s not
known TO have any falling. but bsing with
child which is the only cause OF her being
Sold
Mr. Moore demonstrates that slavery was
abo!. shed by whit another writsr on The subs
ject calls - The al7ertsing power Of ciTIlza
ton and that no positive statute enacted
br the order OF the conscientious Pufitxns is
a part OF their " record
The Bill of Rights may have killed It BY
! inference. but no Massachusetts, law ever
dealt it direct blow. and few of the puritan.
/ are Oh record "a being ashamed of it, though
/ these pages are black enough with their sins
T. make the whole Of them blush in iheiI
| graves
Our author concludes his exceedingly en-
tertaining history with this remarkable state
| meut:
/ Slavery having revsr been formally pro-
/ hibited by legislation in Massachusetts, con
tinued to subsi.t in point OF law until the
year 1865, when the grand constitutional
| Amendment terminated it forever through hou'
the limits Of the United States
/ Mr. Aoore's book is a most valuable con
| ,ribution to American history, snd he de
serves the thanks of the thong htful, not onl y
| for the important facts he hhs brought t.
| light, but for the delightful ma nner IN whict
! he has served them up. His work will ere
ate profound sensation.
! IL conversation With . correspondent o
| the London Eng ! Times a r.nort of which