The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-09-21

planted in their own soil, propagated
among their contemporaries and trans
mitted to the Abolition party of the
present day, You have preached and
practiced it in all your dealings with the
South. This absolute domination 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 settIersin Massa-
chusetts be true, and if the "precious
fruits" Oft, which you are gathering with
so much industry be legitimate, it is a
perfect justification of all thesIavery that
ever existed on this continent Your
| grand eXemplars, from whom you ac-
knowledge 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 potentate chose TO fight with
and subdue weak tribe, inside or out of
his own dominions, he sold the prison.
ers whom lie 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 inter-
est prompted-for they held that the right
of domination, resulting from the appli-
cation of brute force, was good in the
hands of all subsequent purchasers, no
matter how far from the original con-
queror.
They executed this theory to its fullest
extent in their own wars with the Indi-
ans. Without cause or provocation, and
without notice or warning, they fell upon
the Pequods, massaCred many of them,
and made S aves of the survivors, with
out reference to ageor sex. About seven
hundred, 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 unfortu-
nate people escaped from the butchery
by flight, and afterwards agreed to give
| themselves up on solemn promise of
the authorities that they should neither
be put to death nor enslaved. The prom
ise was broken with as little remorse as
a modern Abolitonist would violate his
oath to support the Constitution. The
precious results of the war" were not to
lost 10y an honest observance Of their
pledged faith, and the victims of this in
famous treaChcry were all shipped to
the Barbados, and sold or "swapped for
| BIaCkamoOrs," This practice of ensla-
wing their cartives was uniform, covered
all cases, and included women and chill
dren, as well as fighting men. When
death put King Philip beyond their
reach, they sent his wife and child with
,he rest TO be sold into slavery. The In
dians made bad slaves. They were hard TO
tame, they escaped to the forest, and had
to lie hunted down, brought back and
branded. They never ceased to be sui
len and disobedient. The Africans al
ways, on the contrary,
ACCEPTED THE SITUATION" =, -~
were easily domesticated, and bore the
| yoke without murmuring. For that rea-
son it became settled rule of public and
private economy in Massachusetts to ex-
change their worthless Indians for valu.
able negroes, cheating their West India
customers in every trade. Perhaps it
was here that your party got the germ of
its honesty as well as its humanity. They
made war or no other object than to sup
ply themselves with subjects for this
fraudulent traffic. In 1913 Emanuel
| Browning, thefOremost lawyer in the col
ony, and a leader of commanding inhu-
ence, as well as high connections, made
written argument in favor of wal
with the Narragansets 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
| & thn uT 11,Lt
if it he not synne in us, having power in
our hands, to suffer them to maynteyne
the worship of the devil which their
pow-wows often doe" says he. This ten.
derness of conscience for the sins of 9TH
er 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 ex-
actly you have copied their doctrines
This is the way Mr.. Downing applies the
motive power. eff" says he, upon a
just war, the Lord should deliver them
into our hand, we might easily have men
women and children enough to exchange
for Moors (negroes), which will be more
gayneful pilladge for us than wee con-
ceive; for do not see how wee can thrive
until we get into a stock of slaves sufi-
cient to do all our business" This lex
cept 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 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 well we shall mayntayne twenty
Moores cheaper than one English ser
want" Think of reducing West India
negro in that intensely cold climate to
the one-twentieth part of the food and
clothing which a white menial was in
the habit of getting. They must have
been frozen and starved in great num-
bers. When that happened it was but
the loss of an animal. The harboring of
a slave woman was, in 1916, pronounced
by the highest authority, to be the same
injury as the unlawful detention of
beast In 1716, Sewell, the Chief Justice
of the colony, said that negroes were ra-
ted with horses and hogs. Dr. Belknap
tells us that afterwards, when the stock
enlarged and the market became dull,
young negroes and mulattoes we're given
away like puppies. This is the kind of
freedom, this the equality of the races
which you learned from the ancient col
onists. But they taught you more than
that. Their precept and example estab-
lished
THE SLAVERY OF WHITE PERSONS
as well as Indians and negroes. AS their
remorseless tyranny spared no age and
no sex, so it made no distinction of color
Besides the cargoes of white heretics that
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 of special
Lawrence Southwick and his
wife were Quakers, and accused at the