The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-07-08
A REVELATION.
Where Are Most Needed Missionaries
North or South!
Some Very Pertinent Queries and Thei
Answers.
Eye-0peners to the Blind and BigOted

DALLAS, July 7--[Editor HERALD lon
the 9th of July letter was received here
from Texas friend soiourning in New
England, from which the following extracts
are taken:
u went to hear missionary lecture here
on Texas. IL was first a series of statistical
questions, answered by different young
men, as TO the area. population amount OF
school fund, school lands, etc. OF the state,
when settled, and so on. The final question
was what are the principal needs of the
slater The answer was mission, ohapels
and Sunday schools. The answers were
derived from documents furnished
by the state missionary board. The re-
marks OF the minister constituted the
amusing part, The great need, in his esti.
nation, was TO have missiOnar rs 20 there
who would enlighteu their fearful ignor.
ance and take charge OF the funds hidden
away by the governor and officers of the
state-compel them 10 disgorge and let the
people be taught There was more not
worth remembering and some politics,
which mace some OF the auditors wrathy,
II behooYed the people here, said the min
lster, 70 remember that all the people in
leNas jthc men, OF Iurse,) were voters
their votes COuuted-and they must be
taught enough TO become capable of voting
etc. Other parts OF the lecture, however,
were very pleasant. We are all to be
prayed for, however, and an opportunity
given the people here to contri.
butte towards our enlightenment
Such are the extracts. Two days before
their receipt, viz on the dth of July. 1883
n meeting was held in Dallas, as occurs an.
nually on that day, composed of two or
three gentlemen OF mature years, and such
children and young people as are interested
IN the true history of our country aud en-
Joy that sort of enlightened reunion on
independence day.
Last year the reunion was chiefly de
voted to review of the history Of the old
southern colonies on important points not
usually embodied in current histories,
bringing out the dark as well as the bright
spOts--tacts and the actual truth, 80 far as
known, being the objects sought.
This year the meeting was similarly de-
voted TO the New England States, with
some references to Texas. The points re-
viewed, as IN previous cases, were such as
historians conceal, gloss over or white.
wash, A few points are herewith repro
duced, and iraternally commended to the
consideration OF the missionary lecturer
referred to.
1.-What was the first form OF slavery
states, OF the Unon}
Answer Indians captured by the colo
mes OF Massachusetts bay, Plymouth and
Connecticut were made slaves At home,
and many such sold as such in the West
India Islands.
Cam You name case TO ILLUSTRATED
Answer-Yes. For gallantry in the
Indian wars the general court or
legislature of Connecticut by law
presented captive Indian girl named Bet.
, ty to Captain James Avery, as 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 Phillip
! war and Others many Indians were made
, slaves
3.-Who first introduced African slavery
: in the colonies, and how
Answer. English and New England PEG.
pie, while the southern colonies opposed il.
/ They got the British government to force
B slavery on the people. Newburyport ana
, Nantucket, in Massachusetts, Newport
ana Bristol, in Rhode Island.
and New London, in Connecticut became
the builders, owners and managers of great
slave trading il5ets 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 aud 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 them2
Answer--Yes, everyone of them was
slayeholding when the declaration OF indie.
pendenCe was made and long afterwards.
The New England states, with seven
, months winter and and only five Tor profit
, able labor, became tired of long feeding
idle slaves, prelerlng 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 msjorty 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 1t as fair business shrewdness
though even IN those days many persons in
, all the states, especially in the older south.
, ern states, believed 1t wrong to hold slaves
6.-How about burning witches?
. Answer-No colony, excepting Massa
chusetts, ever burnt witches.
6-Why did Roger Williams have to flee
from Massachusetts
AuSwer-BeCause he was a Baptist, while
/ the ruling power in Massachusetts was com
nOspH Di pnritana and IYAaNApln,t,
4 men of many virtues, but narrow minded
and surchfrged with bigotry and intoler
g ance; and from the same motive Cotton
Mather, great preacher of that school
' had an armed vessel lay IN walt off VI
. Cape Cod to capture "ye hereto, William
+ Penn, We Quaker, EN- route to found
his colony OF Pennsylvania, that he might
} be scourged and driven from the country.
r What has been the rebound or effect
OF those extremely intolerant views in Later
:, times
l Answer-In many respects their real yir
tues, without their bigotry, have beer
transmitted to our day, producing an act
y i've, Jealous and moral people, In other,
'' the rebound from such harsh and tight -laceC
doctrines has been into the ranks of blatant
: inhdelity and many demoralizing issues.
d Slow is IT now about religious liberty
Answer.-lt was long before all restric
!. tions were obliterated, Only q few year.
= ago New Hampshire, for the frs
time and aher long contest, granted
to her Catholic citizens the right to vote.
9 0.-Do any OF the New England state,
e yet deny the right Of voting to any class
their citizens2
b Answer-Certainly Neither Massachu
) sets nor Rhode Island allows poor men Il
vote. There are in Dallas county today a
least thousand white voters, to say moth
q ing of black ones, who could not vote /
o they had lived all their lives in Massachu
sets or Rhode Island.
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