The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-10-05

this ! refer you to Moor's "llistory of
slavery in Massachusetts," where Tho
evidence Consisting chiefly of record,
and documents perfectly authcnticatcd)
IL produced and collated with hllncsI
ana fairness which cannot be questioned.
me plymouth immigrants planted pre-
clSely the doctrine which you ascribr to
the jamestown colonistD, That is to say,
: they held that " the negro had no right,
ofmanhood that the white man mipht
buy, own and sell him and his offspring
forever" Practically and theoretically
they maintained that human slavery in
It's most unmitigated form was a perfectly
Just, proper and desirable institution.
entirely consistent with christianity as
they understood It, aud founded ON prin-
clpIes 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 conquero:s was not para
mount. Whenever it was demonstrated,
| by actual experiment, that any pcoplr
were too weak to defend their familes
against an invaderwho visited them with
hrc and sword they might lawfully he
stripped Of their propcrtv and ihcy
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 contcmporarics
and transmitted to the abolition partv of
the present day. You have preached
snd practiscd it in all YOUR dealings with
the south. This absolute denomination
is what you mean, if YOU mean ANYTHING
WIZ" GI" V'lN "'|uI 'ilc precious re-
planted by the original settlers in Massa-
chusctts be true, and if Che "prcciouo
rull7' Of 1t, Which you are gathering
with 50 much industry, be legitimate, it
Is a perfect justification Of all the slavery
that ever existed on this continent.
Your great cXcmplarS from whom You
acknowIcd &c that you have derived your
ideas 0f freedom, certainly thought, or
profeSscd todhink 50, and they carried it
out to its logical consequences. When
an African potcntate chose to fight with
and subduc Il 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 i
title. They kept them and worked them
to death, or sold them again n their in.
tcrcst promptcd---tor 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-
qustor.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., r,,r
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They executed This Theory nil. fullest
extent in their own war. with thn In
dians. Without cause or proyocaiion.
and without notice or warninr thcy fell |
upon the pruuods. massacrrd many Of /
them, and made slave, of the survivor,
without distinclian Of age or sex. Ahout
seven hundred. Including many women
and children. were sent TO the West In.
dies, and these sold ON rubIic occouut
the proceeds heiur put in fine coloui,
treasury. Eipbt score of these unfortu-
nate pcopIc cscapcd from fine butchrrv
by nirht' and afterwards agreed to rivr
themselves up ON the solemn promise of
the authorities that thcv should nrithrr
be nut to death nor rnslnyrd The
promise was broken with os little rcmor.o
AZ modern aboIitionist would violate
his oath to support the constitution.
The "prccious results of the war" were
not to he lost bv an honest obscrvoucr
of their pledged faith. and the victims
OF this Infamous trcacbcry were all of
them shipped to Barbadocs and sold nr
"swappca for Blackamoors. This proc-
ticc of cnsIavinp their roptiycs was uui-
form. covered all cases includcl women
and children. as well rs FIGHTING men.
When death put king Philip bcyond
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 sullcn and disobedient. The
Africans always on the contrary. "ac.
ceptcd the situation" were easily domcs.
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 wa,
here that your party rot the germ Of
its honesty as we'll a its humanity.
They made war for no other object than
to supply themselves with subject. for
thi. fraudulent tr?nic. In 1913, Eman-
ucl Downing, the foremost lawyer in the
colony and a leader Of commanding in
huencc, rs well as high connection made
a written argument in favor of Il war
with the Narragansctts. lie did not
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