The Osceola times., 1876-09-30

slavery 10 the backbone. II you doubt
this ! refer you to Moor's "History of
slavery in Massachusetts" where the
evidence Consisting chiefly of records
and documents perfectly authenticated)
is produced and collated with fullness
and fairness which cannot be questioned.
The Plymouth immigrants planted pre-
clsely the doctrine which you ascribe to
the jamestown colonists; that is to say,
they held that "the negro had no rights
ofmanhood that the white man might
buy, own and sell him and his offspring
forever" Practically and theoretically
they maintained that human slavery in
ITS most unmitigated form was a perfectly
just, proper and desirable institution,
entirely consistent with christianity as
they understood it, and founded on prin-
ciples of universal jurisprudence. They
insisted upon it as an established and
settled rule of the law of nations that
when one government or community or
political organization made war upon its
own subjects, or the subjects of another,
and vanquished then, the people of the
beaten party had no rights to which the
right OF the c0nquerofs was net para
mount Whenever it was demonstrated,
by actual experiment, that any people
were too weak to defend their famiIies
against an invader who visited them with
fire and sword, they might lawfully be
stripped of their property, and they
themselves, their wives and their chill
dren, might justly be held as slaves or
sold in perpetual bondage. That was the
idea they planted in their own soil, pro-
pagatcd among their contemporaries
and transmitted to the abolition party OF
the present day. You have preached
and practised 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" of it, which you are gathering
with 50 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 poientate 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 question of his
title. They kept them and worked them
TO death, or sold them again rs their in.
terest prompted--for they held that the
right of domination, resulting from the
application of brute force, was good in
the hands of all subsequent purchasers,
however remote from the original con-
o'ilhE' E'MAo,A,riusErTs 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 fight, 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 treachcry were all Of
them shipped to Barbados, and sold or
"swapped for Blackamoors." This prac-
tce of enslaving their captives was uni
form, covered all cases, 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 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-
ticated, and bore the yoke without
murmuring. For that reason, it be-
came 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 Of
its honesty us 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 leader of commanding in.
huence, as well rs high connection, made
a written argument in favor of a war
with the Narragansctts. He did not
pretend that any wrong had been done,
but he had pious dread that Massachu-
setts would be held responsible for the
false religion of the Narragansetts. " /
doubt" says he, "if it I've not synne in us,
having power in our lands, 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 90 little further, and you
will see with pleasure how exactly you
have copied their doctrines. off" says
he, 'upon just war, the Lord should
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 / do not see how We
can thrive until we get into stock oi
slaves sufficient to do all our business. u
This Except the spelling) might como
from an abolition caucus today. You