The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-07-12

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ty to Captain James Avery, as q slave. He
sold her to one Hill, and Hill sold her to
her chief Uncas, for seven hundred acres OF
land, on which thriving manufacturing
city, full Of nabobs enriched by federal
tariff laws, now stands. In King Phillips
war and others many Indians were made
slaves.
3.-Who first introduced African slavery
in the colonies, and how?
Answer.-Englsha and New England peo-
pie, while the southern colonies opposed 1t.
They got the British government to force
slavery on the people. Newburyport and
Nantucket, in Massachusetts; Newport
anu Bristol, in , Rhode Island;
slave-tradng fleets, selling their captured
Africans as slaves along the whole Atlantic
coast from Gloucester, east OF Boston, to
Savannah, in the colony Of Oglethorpe, in
the south. The slave ships, owned. man
aged and fitted out in those several ports
loaded with rum, beads, tobacco and trink'
cts, would enter an African bay or river,
and at once open negotiations with native
chiefs for as many slaves as desired, for so
much rum, tobacco beads and red ribbons,
and these were paid as the native savages
were delivered on board. For a great
while no southern ship engaged in this
business, and very few ever did.
| 4.-Did all the Old thirteen colonies hold
these slaves. and how was slavery abolished
in them?
Answer-Yes, everyone of them was
slayeholdng when the declaration of indie
pendence was made add long afterwards.
The New England states, with seven
m onths winter and and only five for profit
able labor, became tired OF long feeding
idle slaves, pretering to hire white men
during the working season, as they do now
in farm work. So they passed laws pro.
yiding that at certain future times all
slaves should be free; bat, before the time
fixed arrived, the great majority OF slave
holders sold their slaves further south.
This all occurred on economic grounds,
before there was any abolition party and in
thus selling their slaves south
those New Enganders simply re-
garded it as fair business shrewdness,
though even in those days many persons in
ali the states, especially in the older south
ern states, believed it wrong to hold slaves.
5.-How about burning witches?
Answer-No colony, excepting Massa-
chusetts, ever burnt witches.
6.-Why did Roger Williams have to flee
from Massachusetts,? -.
Answer-Because he was Baptist, while
the ruling power in Massachusetts was com
posed of Puritans and Independents, stern
men of many virtues, but narrow minded,
and surcharged with bigotry and intoler-
ance; and from the same motive Cotton
Mather, great preacher OF that school,
had an armed vessel lay IN walt on We
Cape Cod to capture I'VE hereto, William
Penn, We Quaker, en- route to found
his colony OF Pennsylvania, that he might
be scourged and driven from the country.
What has been the rebound or effect
of those extremely intolerant views IN later
times?
Answer.-In many respects their real vir-
tues, without their blgotry, have Deen
transmitted to our day, producing an act
i've, Jealous and moral people. In others
the rebound from such harsh and tight-laced
doctrines has been into the ranks OF blatant
intidelity and many demoralizing issues:
Show is it now about religious liberty?
Answer.-It was long before all restric-
tions were obliterated. Only few years
ago New Hampshire, for the hrst
time and after long contest, granted
to her Catholic citizens the right to vote.
9.-Do any of the New England states
yet deny the right of voting to any class oil
their citizens?
Answer-Certainly. Neither Massachu-
sets nor Rhode Island allows poor men TO
vote. There are in Dallas county to-day at
least a thousand white voters 70 say nom,
ing of black ones, who could not vote II
they had lived all their lives in Massachu-
sets or Rhode Island.
lO.-Very well. Now tell us something
on one or two points about IeXas. What
has She done for general education as COM
pared with the New England states?
Answer-Honestly, -, soberly ahu
righteously speaking, with TREMENDOUS oD-
staces and drawbacks to overcome Texas,
within forty-three years and chiefly WITHIN
twenty-five wears, has done more for the
universal education of future generations
of her children than all the New England
states did in over two hundred years OF
their existence, and is now diituslng its
benefits to a greater extent than they ulu
, till thev were enriched by protective la"s
liDWhat has been the chief drawback Of
later years.
Answer: Following the war came recon
struction, largely controlled by alien in
terlopers and irresponsible agen
cies of various kinds seeking
10 run riot in high taxes on the pre-,
: tence of education, but in truth 10 upholu
J partizan favorites and pollute the minds Of
our children to the extent Of training them
} 10 believe lies against their own kith, kin
and state. This so outrages the great mass
OF yirtuous people that many were caution:
T in Welding support TO public education nj
ter the state government passed into the
J hands of our own people. The intrusion,
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a goodly number who rushed down upon
, us In some sense as unbidden missionaries
pending our trials during reconstruction
also createda contempt and disgust towards
that bogus attempt at forced
/. public education from which the best men
} In the land were slow TO recover: Among
: refined people impertinent selfsssertlon
and assumed superiority, are ever viewed
, with disgust and contempt, whether exhio
. tied BY American Doors in the polite circle:
Of Europe, by shoddyites at American
watering places, or by dudes before Texas
cowboys. =.
OF course this is but brief summary o.
the days enjoyment, only so much a.
; see ned q coincidence from the facts WIFE
which this article opens. Besides, Il IS pre-
sumed that Dallas, at least, with her nine
teen white and eight colored churches, two
colleges, five fine public school houses and
more buildings, besides numerous other ex
b ceIlent denominational and private schools
can survive without this raid on the STATE
treasury. sPhoiAL hLrOhA
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