The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-10-14

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African potentate chose to fight with ant
subdue weak tribe, inside or out Of hi
own dominions, he sold the prisoner
whom he did not think proper to kill, anC
the men Of Massachusetts, bought then
without question Of his title. They KEEP
them and worked them to death, or sole
them again as their interest prompted
for they held that the right Of domination
resulting from the application Of brute
force, was good in the hands Of all subse.
quent purchasers, however remote from
the original conquisitor.
They executed this theory to its fullest
extent in their own wars with the Indians
Without cause or provocation, and with
out notice or warning, they fell upon the
Pequods, massacred many of them, and
made slaves Of the survivors, without dis.
tinction Of age or sex. About seven hun.
dred, including many women and children
were sent to the West Indies, and there
sold on public account, the proceeds being
put into the colonial treasury. Eight
score of these unfortunate people escaped
from the butchery by fight, and afterward
agreed TO give themselves up on a solemn
promise Of the authorities that they should
neither be put to death nor ensiaved.
The promise was broken with as little re-
morse US modern abolitionist would vio-
late his oath to support the constitution.
The precious results of the war" were not
to be lost by an honest observance Of their
pledged faith, and the victims of this in
famous treachery were allof them shipped
to the Barbados, and sold or "swapped
for Blackamoors. This practice Of en-
slaying their captives was uniform, cover
ed oil cases, and included women and
children as well as fighting men. When
death put King Philip beyond their reach,
they sent his wife and child with the rest
to bo sold into slavery. The Indians made
bad slaves. They were hard to tame, they
escaped to the forest, and had to be hunted
down, brought back and branded. They
never ceased to be sullen and disobedient.
The Africans always, on the contrary,
accepted the situation" were easily do
mesticated, aud bore the yoke without
murmuriue. For that reason, it became
a settlcdru ofpublic and private economy
in Massachusetts, to exchange their worth
less Indians for valuable negroes, cheating
their West India customers in every trade.
Perhaps it was here that your party Cot
the germ of its honesty as well as its h.
manity. They made war for no other OBJ
ject than to supply themselves with sub
jects for this fraudulent traffic. In 1913
Emanuel Downing, the foremost lawyer in
the colony and a leader of commanding
influence, as well as high connections,
made written argument in favor Of war
with the Narragansetts. He did not pre-
tend that any wrong had been done; but
he had pious dread that Massachusetts,
would be held responsible for the false re-
ligion of the Narragansetts. 81 doubt"
says he, "if it be not synne in us, having
power in our hands, to suffer them to
mayntayne the worship of the devil which
their pow-wowes often doe" This ten
derness for the sins of other people is very
characteristic of the party which got the
"germ of its ideas" from that source. But
60 little further and you will see with
pleasure how exactly you have copied their
doctrines: This is the way Mr.. Downing
applies the motive power. "If," says he,
"upon Just war, the Lord should deliver
them into our hand, We might easily have
men, toon,en and children enough to er-
change for Moors (negroes,) which will be
more gayneful pilladge for us than wee
conceive; for | do not see how we can
thrive until we get into a stock Of slaves
sufficient to do all our business" !" This
(cxcept the spelling) might come from an
abolition caucus to-day. You will find
Downing's letter in Moore, p. 10.
They did get most of their Indians of,
and supplied themselves with negroes in
their place. The shameless inhumanity
with which the blacks were used made
slavery in Massachusetts, "the sum Of all
villainy." In the letter of Downing, already
referred to, he says: "You know very
well we shall mayntayne twenty Moores
cheaper than one Englishe servant. =
Think Of reducing West India negro in
that intensely cold climate to the one
twentieth part of the food and clothing
which white menial was in the habit Of
getting. They must have been frozen and
starved to death in great numbers. When
that happened it was but the loss of an
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