Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-01-18

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buy. own and eel him. aud his offspring
1oreser." Practically and fheoretical-
Iy they maintainsa Mat hunsan slavery
IN its most unmitigsted form vas per-
fectIy just. proper and desirable insti-
tuition, entirely eons;stent With Christi
anity a. they undesstoodit, and founded
on principles Of universal jurisprudence.
When an African potentate chose TO
fight with and .subdue weak tribe, in
side or outside Of his own dominions, he
sold the prisoners whom he did not
think proper to kill, and the men Of
Massachusetts bought them without a
question ofhis title. They kept them and
worked them to death or sold them again
Is their interests prompted, for they
held that the right of domination, re-
sulting from the application Of brute
force, was good in the hands of all sub
sequent purchasers. They executed
this theory to its fullest extent in their
own wars with the Indians. Without
cause or provocation and without notice
or warning they fell upon the Pequods,
massacred many Of them and made
slaves Of the survivors, without distinc-
ton Of age or sex. About seven hun
dred, including many women and chill
dren. were sent to the West Indies and
there sold on public account, the pro-
ceeds being put into the. Colonial treas
ury. Eight score Of these unfortunate
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 or enslaved. The pro-
mise was broken with as little remorse
as modern abol,tionist would violate
the 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 10 the Barbados and sold
or ''swappcd for Blackamoors." This
practice Of enslaving their captives was
uniform, covered all cases and included
women and children as we'll as fighting
men. When death put King Philip be-
yond their reach they sent his wife and
child with the rest to be sold into sla-
very. The Indians made bad slaves.
They were hard to tame and escaped
to the forest. They never ceased to be
sullen and disobedient. The Africans,
always on the contrary, accepted the
situation," were readily domesticated
and bore the yoke without murmuring.
For that reason it became a settled rule
Of private and public economy in Mas.
sachusetts to exchange their worthless
Indians for valuable negroes, cheating
the West India customers in every trade.
Perhaps il was here that your party got
the germ Of its honesty as well as its
humanity. They made war for no 9TH
er purpose than to supply themselves
with subjects for this fraudulent traffic.
They did get most of their Indians of
and supplied themselves with negroes
IN their places. The shameless inhu-
manity with which the blacks were
used, made slavery il Massachusetts,
the "sum of all villainies." In the let.
ter of Downing, already referred to, he
says: "You know very we'll we shall
mayntayne twenty Moores cheaper than
one English servant" Think of redu-
cling a West India negro in that intense
ly cold climate to e-twentieth part o.
the food and clothing which a white
meniai was in the habit Of getting
They must have been frozen and starved
to death in great numbers. When that
it was but the loss Of an ami
NAL. The harboring Of slave woman
was in 1646 pronounced by the highest
authority to be the same injury a. the
unlawful detention Of beast. In l7l6
Sewall the Chief Justice of the colony,
said that negroes were rated with horses
and hogs. DR.. Belknap tells US that at
when the stock enlarged and
the market became dull, young negroes
and mulattoes were sometimes given
away like puppies. This is the kind of
freedom, this the equality of the races
which you learned from the ancient
The slave code planted in
Massachusetts, " as the earliest in Amer
lca and the most cruel in all its provis- |
ions. II was pertinaciously adhered to |
lor generations, and never repented OF
Or formerly repealed. ltwas gradually |
not because it was wrong. |
but solely because it was found after
long experience to be unprofi,able.-l
Their plan Of keeping twenty negroes
Is cheaply as one white servant did not !
work well, for in that climate a negro |
lhus used would infallibly die before
has labor paid what he cost. They sold /
heir stock whenever they could. but /
emancipation was forbidden BY law, un-
ess the owner gave security to nam
MN the slave and prevent him from be- |
coming a public charge. Il would be
sery unjust TO deny that a great MANY
men from the earliest period Of our h,s-
iory were sincerely opposed 30 African
ltnvery from motives Of religion. beney-
'lenee and humanity. This sentiment