The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-14

| tllOsb W uSuL WIN ubh cubhhO ~ Wpnh NlibNt
inside or out of his own dominions, he sold
the prisoners whom he did not think proper
to Kill, and the men of Massachusetts bought
them without question of mis- title They
| kept them and worked them to death or sold
them again as their interest prompted-for
they had held that the right Of domination,
resulting from the application of brute force,
was good in the hands of all subsequent pur-
chasers, however remote from the original
conquisitor.
THE MASSACHUSETTS SLAVE FRAUDS.
They executed this theory to the fullest
extent in their own wars with the Indians.
Without cause or provocaton and without
notice or warning, they fell upon the Pequods,
massacred many of them, and made slaves
out of the survivors, without distinction Of
age or sex. About seven hundred, including
many women and children, were sent to the
West Indies and these sold on public nc
count, the proceeds being put in the colonial
treasury. Eight score Of these unfortunate
people escaped from the butchery by flight
and afterwards agreed to give Themselves up
on the promise of the authorities that they
should neither be put to death nor enslayed.
The promise was broken with IA little re-
morse AS modern Abolitionist would violate
his oath to support the constitution. The
''precious results of the war" we're not to be
lost by an honest observance of their
pledged faith, and the victims of this in
famous treachery were all Of them shipped
to the Barbados, and sold or "swapped"
for Blackamoors" This practice of
enslaving their captives was uniform, Gov
cred all casee, included women and children,
xtrnl1 NJ. iifrht ma nj
King Philip beyond their reach, they sent
into slavery. The Indians maze bad slaves.
They were hard to tame, they escaped into
the forest and had to be hunted down,
brought back and branded. They never
cease to be sullen and disobedient The AT
rieans always, on the contrary, accepted the
situation" were easily domcstcated and
bore the yoke without murmuring. For
that reason it became settled rule of pub
lie and private economy in Massachusetts to
exchange their worthless Indians for vaua-
BILE negroes, cheating their West India Gus.
toners in every trade. Perhaps it was here
that your party got the germ of its honesty,
Ms well AS its humanity. They made war for
no other object than to supply themselves
with subjects for this fraudulent traffic. In
! 1913 Emanuel Downing, the foremost law
yer in the colony and leader of command
ing influence rs well rs high connections,
made written argument in favor of a war
with the Narragansetts. He did not pre-
tend that any wrong had been DONE but
he had pious dread that Massachusetts
would BIZ held responsible for the
false religion Of the Narragansetts. Il
doubt" says he, "if it be not synne in
us, having power in our hands, To sut-
fer them to nayntayne the worship Of the
devil, which their pow-wowes often DO
This tenderness Of conscience is very
characteristic of tho party which got its
germ of ideas from that source, But 90 u
little farther ard you will see with pleasure
how exactly you have conied their doctrines
"f," says he, upon q Just war, the Lore
should deliver them into our hand we might
easily have men, women and children t
trade for more negroes, which will be more
gaynetul pilladge for us than we can conceive
for don't sec how we can thrive until We
get in stock of slaves sufficient to do al
our business" This, except the spelling
might come from an Abolitionist caucus o
to-day, You will find Downing's letter il
Moore, page ten.
| YANKEE HUMANITY.
They did get most of the Indians off, an(
supplied themselves with negroes IN the
places. The shameless inhumanity will
which the blacks were used made slavery il
Massachusetts the sum of all viliany. In tn,
letter of Downing already referred to he says
"You know very well we shall mayntayn,
twenty Moores cheaper than one Englisl
servant" Think of reducing West Indi,
negro in that intense cold climate to one
twentieth part the food and clothing which
white mental was in the habit of getting
They must have been frozen and starved Il
death in great numbers. When that hap
pened il was but the loss OF An animal
The harboring Of slave woman was
in 1916, pronounced by the highest au
thorty to be the same injury as an unlawful
: detention of beast. In ZIG, Sewell, tn
chief justice of the colony, said that negroe
were rated with horses and hogs. DR.. Bel
,, KNAPP tells us that afterward when the stoc
enlarged and the traffic became dull, youn.
negroes were sometimes given away lik
4 puppies. This is the kind of freedom thi
l the equality of the races which you learne
from the ancient colonists.
But they taught you more than thai
Their preeept and example established tn
slavery of white persons rs we'll MS Indian
and negroes. As their remorsele;s tyrann
| spared no age and no sex, SO it made no dis
tinction of color. Besides the cargoes c
white heretics which were captured and ship
ped to them by their brethren in England
A they took special delight in fastening thei
! yoke on all who were suspected of heterc
Q doxy One instance is worthy of speci,
4 attention. Lawrence Southwick and his viii
: were Quakers, and accused at tho same tim
Q with many Others of attending Quaker meet
: ing,or 'sydng with Quakers," and "sbsentin
themselves from the public ordinances" TIL
y Southwicka hsd previously suffered so niue
: in their persons and estates from this kin
5 of persecution that they could no longt
/. work or pay any moro fines, and therefor
J. the general court, by solemn resolution
ordered them to be banished on pain
o death. Punishment, you will not fail to NJ
V tice, was in itself equivalent to lingerin
i. death, if the parties were poor and feeble
n for it meant merely driving them into IL
: wilderness to starve with hunger an coll
?, Southwick and his wife went out and die
Is very soon. But this il not all. TIL
{, unfortunate pair had two children
l. boy and girl Daniel and Provided wi
d having healthy constitutions, would bring
/. good price in the slave market. The childrC
S. were taken from their parents and ordert
A. to be sold in the West Indies 1t happene
4. however that there was not shipmaster
IN any port Of tho colony who would consent
ID be the agent of their expectation and sal
IN The authorities being thus baked in the
IN views of the main chance were fam to