American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1867-10-12
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PURITAN PHIL ANTHROPY.
Mas achus"tts' Hear less Whi'e Slave
! Trsds. How the Yankees Treat Ihs
: oermans-n Tale of Il. .Tror.

IL Tr"oa. How the Yankees Treat thS
l osrmans-A Tale of II .rror.
Mr.. George Bancroft, of Massa.
clIusetts, now Minister to the Court
of Prussia, has y job on hand which
we imagine will put 20 pretty sharp
test his diplomatic abilities. He has
| to defend or explain transaction .:
the late civil war which tr,nsc"ndS
in enormity anything that New Erg
and has done, and which. thus tar,
has been studiouSly concealed. The
slave trade which Massachusetts t''s
'rred-the rOrli- trade which she
fosters vet differ only in degree
rom the npfarinuS commercial trans
action, a traffic in white human flesh.
which we are about to expose, and To
which we beg the attention of our
rc:,lers, and especially of our Ger
man readers.
Sometime in the year 1854, when
the terrors of the CONSUMPTION look
cd the selfish tanaticisin of MaSSa.
rhuSrttS full in the face, and the price
If substitutes rose to $50 and $500
auiece, there arrived III the barbOr
of Boston. the steamer BellOna, ami
the barks Garland and GodefrOy.
They were freighted with human he
,ngs, mostly men, and mostly Plus.
slams. They had come to land %,
promise aud well-rfqutted industry.
They had come to TN the land and
exercise their peaeeful trades, Il
their doom WAS perury, aud disease,
and death. Their story is. soon told.
They had been vi ed-the poor
creatnres-at their homes in Ge!
many, by a th-tongued, plausible
son of Massachusetts the agent OF Ger
tain Boston firms. His errand was
10 procure G rman immigrant labor
ers. The "bloody Shareholders re-
bellion," he said, lad tllinned' the
labor Of the North, and there was
y great opening for the skilled indus
try of Europe. He promised them
employment for three years-$lOO
cash down, and el2 per month, Joni
nous terms, but uImeaning tn the
distant stranger No doubt he painted
New England as the land of milk
and Observation-Disclosures, Paradise
and Boston HarbOr, whittier they
were to be waited, the Golden Gate.
Az will be seen, they found it Il very
different thing. At last the tempter
prevailed-cOntracts OF very misty
plraseology were signed-the poor
Prussians babe farewell to the father.
land, and the deed WAS done. Besides
the contract which they had aligned.
they were induced to release any
claim they might have to compensa
ton beyond the 800, and the Sl2
month The BelIona and her con.
sorts sailed.
Boston Harbor is destined to have
an ugly name in history. Not only
is Fort Warren there, with its tale o.
wrong-but there aretwO
small islands, called Deer Island and
lialIoupe's Island, which have also
their sad story to tell. On these
Arrtched 81 OTIS, cut off fion inter
course with the land, the poor Ger
man immigrants were landed, and
Kept by force. The .Btllona dumped
down her human cargo, az if they
bad been M many fhules. Presently |
how long, we are unable
10 say-lhere came up Il whisper to
TO the German residents and assOcia-
tons of Boston, that something was
wrong. LOW and tEen a poor, sick
stranger was found wandering, home.
pSs, who said he had been enticed
from his home, and was starving in a
strange land. This led to inquiry,
md the startling facts were disclosed
hat all these immigrants had been
anded at Deer Island, surrounded
md Kept in terror by the armed police
# the city Of BostOn-inspected by
/ military surgeon. whose name we
lave-the sick set ashore and turned
drift, not d.'llar paid them-and
he healthy torcibly transported to
ialloupe's Island, a military posi-,
md there, by threatsand persuasion,
Unlisted in the army OF the United
states, and sent Immediately to the
runt, credited to the quota of Mass.i-
the substitute money,
Ehich was realized by the operation,
eccivrd and kept by the commercial
rms who planned il
For all this, there is 40 redress; AZ
0 it, there has scarcely been any pub
city. The Prussian Charge Tafaires
iadr some faint effort 1T inyestiga-
ion. The German associations in
'oston did all they could ; but "loy.
lty" and the public sentiment OF
{ Massachusetts approved it. The
'ankre merchants made good thing
I'D the poor. frieudless Prussian has
le honor of sleeping in some national
OF wanders, MANNED for :
fe. through our streets. Verify, this
the way the philanthrOpic Yankees
eat the German strsngers.
Yet, we very much fear, our Ger =
an citizens. The compatriots, friends
nd brothers Of these poor Prussian
migrants, will march to the polls 4
iring the coming political struggle, II
I'd cast votes in favor of these base p
.trayers of their cOuntrymen! If
ey wish revenge for the murder of :
cir friends, the surrst and most ia.
l way to obtain il is to cast their :.