The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-10-06

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3 and transmitted to the abolition party of
the present day. You have preached
and pfactised it in all your dealings with
the south. This absolute denomination
IS what you mean, if you mean anything,
: when you talk about the "precious re-
suits of the war" If the doctrine thus
planted by the original settlers in Massa-
chusetts be true, and if the precious
fruits" efit, which you are gathering
with so much industry, be legitimate, it
is perfect justification of all the slavery
that ever existed on this continent.
Your great exemplars, from whom you
acknowledge that you have derived your
ideas of freedom, certainly thought, or
prOfessed to. think so. and they carried it
out to its logical consequences. When
an African pUtehtate chose to fight with
| and subdue a weak tribe, inside or out
Of his own denomination, he sold the
prisoners whom he did not think proper
to kill, and the men of Massachusetts,
bought them without a question of his
title. They kept them and worked them
to death, or sold them again as their in
terest prOmpted-for they held that the
right of domination, resulting from the
application of brute force, was good in
the hands CT all subsequent purchasers,
however remote from the original con-
quisitor.
| THE MASSACHUSETTS SLAVE FRAUDS.
They executed this theory to its fullest
extent in their own wars with the In
dians. Without cause or provocation,
and without notice or warning, they fell
upon the Pcquods, masSacred many of
them, and made slaves of the survivors,
without distinction of age or sex. About
seven hundred, including many women
and children, were sent to the West In
dies, and these sold on public account,
the proceeds being put in the colonial
| treasury. Eight score of these unfortu-
nate people escaped from the butchery
! by flight, and afterwards agreed to give |
| themselves up on the solemn promise of
the authorities that they should neither |
| be put to death nor enslaved. The |
promise was broken with as little remorse |
as a modern abolitionist would violate |
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 infamous treachery were all of
| them shipped to Barbados, and sold or
| "swapped for BlackamOofs." This pfac-
tice of euslaving their captives was uni
form, covered all cases, included women
When death put king Philip beyond
their reach, they sent his wife and child
with the rest to be sold into slavery.
The Indians make 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, "ac-
cepted the situation" were easily domes-
ticatcd, and bore the yoke without
murmuring. For that reason, it be-
came a settled rule of public and private
economy in Massachusetts to exchange
their worthless Indians for valuable
negroes, cheating their West India Gus
toners in every trade. Perhaps it was
here that your party got the germ
its honesty as well As its humanity.
They made war for no other object than
to supply themselves with subjects for
this fraudulent traffic In 1913, Eman-
uel Downing, the foremost lawyer in the
colony and a leader of commanding in
fuence, as well As high connection, made
a written argument in favor of war
with the Narragan>etts. He did not
pretend thIt any wrong bad been done,
but he had p,Uu> dread that Massachu-
setts would be hel responsible for the
false religion OF the Narragansetts. :"
doubt" says he, eff 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 tenderness of conscience is
very characteristic of the party which
got the ''germ of its ideas" from that
source. But go little further, and you
will s7e with pleasure how exactly you
have copied their doctrines. " IT," says
bn tho I ord chnrI1 |
deliver them into our. hands, we might
easily have men, women and children to
exchange for Moors(negroes), which will
be more gayneful pilladge for us than
wee conceive, for l do not see how we
can thrive until we get into a stock of
slaves sufficient to do all our business"
This Except the spelling) might come
from an abolition caucus to-day. You
will find Downing's letter in Moore,
page ten.
YANKEE HUMANITY.
They did get most of their Indians off
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, al
ready referred to, he says: You know
very we'll we shall mayntayDe twenty
Moore cheaper than one Englishe ser
want" Think of reducing West India
negro in that intensely cold climate to
the ne-twentieth part of the food and
clothing which a 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 animal. The harbor-
ing of a slave woman was, in 1916, pro-
nounced by the highest authority to be
the same injury as the unlawful deten-
tion of a beast. In 1716. Sewell, the
chief justice of the colony, said that ne
groes were rated with horses and hogs.
DR.. Belknap tells us that afterward,
when the stock enlarged and the market
became dull, young negroes and mulat-
toes were sometimes given away like
puppies. This is the kind of freedom,
this the equality of the races, which you
learned from the ancient colonists.
But they taught you more than that.
Their precept and example established
the slavery of white persons as well as
Indians and negroes. As their remorse-
less tyranny spared no age and no sex,
so it made no distinction of color. Be-
sides the cargoes of white heretics which
were captured and shipped to them by
their brethren in England, they took
! special delight In fastening their yoke
on all who were suspected of heterodoxy.
| One instance is worthy Ofspecial attention.
| Lawrence Southwick and his wife were
Quakers, and accused at the same time
with many others of attending Quaker
meetings of syding with Quakers" and
u" absenting themselves from the publick
ordinances" The Southwicks had pre-
viOusly suffered so much in their persons
and estates from this kind of persecu-
tioR that they could no longer work or
pay any more fines, and, therefore, the
general court, bv solemn resolution, or
| dered them to be banished on pain of |
death. Banishment you will not fail TO |
notice, was IN itself equivalent to a lin
Cering death, if the parties were poor
and feeble; for it meant merely driving |
them into the wilderness to starve with |
hunger an1 cold. Sourhwick and his |
vie went out aud died very soon. But |
this Is not AL This unto tunate pair |
had two children, a boy and girl |
In