Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-17
MEMPHIS
SUNDAY, :: FEBRUARY II, 1854.

MEMPHIS APPEAL.
SUNDAY, :::: FEBRUARY IL, 1884.
THE TRUTH Oh HISTORY IND
GATED. |
Slavery is as dead as the herring rotting
under the vertical rays of a summers sur
1t has no more vitality than an Egyptian
mummy. Its fires have gone out never to
be relumed. The Southern whites readily
accept the situation. They nave discOv-
cred, by practical experience, that free
labor is more profitable han slave labor,
and would not, therefore, re-establish
slavery if the privilege was optional with
them. Slavery, in America, is forever
buried in the tomb of obsolete IDEAS"
The original settlers of the new continent
were responsible for its introduction, and
the original trainers of the constitution
were responsible for its protection. No
section of the Union-none of the colonial
provinces-can shirk the responsibility OF
American slavery. But fanaticism scruples
at nothing and it is not surprising that
reckless fanatics should attempt to wash
their holy hands of the stain OF slavery.
10 read the fulsome eulogies on the death
Of Wendell Phillips, one would naturally
suppose that the Northern States we're
never cursed and polluted by the tread of
a slave. Henry Ward Beecher, in his ser
mon on Sunday last eulogizing Wendell
Phillips, said:
It has been said a thousand times, and every
time falsely, and i was said by one of the most
eloquent sons of the South in the Cooper Union
neither a time nor a fitting place to Expose lie
IaIsiSy Of the statement; il was said that The
Il in Ins3 ad out gu and having realized on its slaves
mas nc, historic verify 10 il. In Massachusetts,
where slavery existed but slightly, it died by a
very simple legal decision where Que eace vas
brought into court and the Court said that ii was
man was free. After that there was no enactment
and slavery, was dead, In New York a bill was
tanning a certain age they were to become free
After a trial of some ten years, it was considered
Now, as sgainst those who falsely accuse the in
tegrity and love Of liberty of this great Stats, let
find throughout the declaration Of Standardization,
and that previous 70 that the rights of the slave
were protected. No man was permitted to take a
slave GU. of New York without giving bonds for
his r~etErn, and they never were sold to the South.
Now E d then one might have been, although /
never heard of such a case. Whatever the statute .
cOEld do to maintain the slave in liberty was
Worth .oid out ami MIL then awe Went fo i6fo the 1f ba. ihat t6 of
emancipation is false.
This is pretty stuff to be flung in the
face OF an intelligent people familiar with
notorious and incontrovertible facts. If
slavery is dead beyond resurrection, that
is no reason why the truth of history as
to its introduction and establishment
should not be indicated. 1t will be seen
that Mr.. Beecher says that Slavery ex-
listed but slightly in Massachusetts. This
apology and excuse is as silly and weak
as that OF the unfortunate girl who said
that they need not make such a fuss
about the accident, as the little thing
weighed only a pound. The slave trade
was carried on by Boston merchants and
Boston vessels. So extensive was this
trade, carried on by Northern merchants
and Northern ships, hat the Southern
States became alarmed at the rapid influx
OF slaves fresh from Africa, and the law
abolishing the slave trade was inspired by
The Southern people. The law restrain
ing the traffic did not go into effect until
the merchants were given time to
dispose of their vessels or to en-
gage in other business. Slavery was
not abolished in New York until
about the commencement OF the present
century, and then it was gradual, afford
ing the n ample time to sell then
slaves, which they did. Mr.. Beecher SAYS
that the charge that the Northern States
sold their slaves is an absolute lie." His
tory does not sustain this emphatic denial,
Tor the statistics show that there were
many negroes in the Northern States dur
ing the existence of slavery, and that so
soon as slavery was abolished a negro in a
Northern State was a curiosity, while
the figures show that the slave States
gained in negro population in the same
proportion that the free States lost. If
there were not as many negroes in the
Northern States after emancipation as
there were when slavery existed, what be
came OF the negroes? Mr.. Beecher at
tempts to make Massachusetts the home OF
a liberty-loving people in the face of the
notorious fact that history has gibbeted
them as cruel bigots, who not only prac-
ticed slavery but were the most cruel and
sc ihNA lGietCultu Iilt Dap
lists, the Quakers, the Catholics. fined. i'm
prisoned, lashed, mutilated, enslayed and
banished everybody that dared TO utter a
free thought, Indeed, it was in Massa-
chuset's that persecution, slavery and
cruelty We're born. Practically and thao-
r~et'cally the people Of Old BAY State main.
tanned that human slavery was not only
Just and proper, but a desirable institu-
ton, entirely consistent with Christianity
and founded on the universal law of ma.
tions. a few years ago the Hon. Jere S.
Black, in a scathing review of the preten-
sions OF the people of Massachusetts, as
cOntrasted with their practices, said;
They executed this theory to the fullest extent
IN their own wars with tho Indians, Without
cause or proyccatton or warning, tucy fell upon
slaves out Of the survivors, without distinction Of
age, or seS, About go, including many women
these sold on public account, the proceeds
being put in the Colonial Treasury. Eight scorc
hntchcry by hight, and attcrward agreed to give
themselves up on the promise of the authorities
that they should neither be put 10 death or On
shaved, The promise was broken with as little
remorse. as a modern abrlitiouist would violate
his oath to support tho constitution. The
precious results of the war" we're not TO be lost
by an honest Observance of their pledged faith,
NnA AAt lNAlulN - u Nll- infamous lTNNrnGTN were
all of them shipped to the Barbados, aud
sold or wrapped for B~lackamonrs." This
practice of e~nslavtng their ~captivcs was uniform,
covered all cases included women aud children,
as well as lighting men. When death put king
Fhllp beyond their reach, they sent his wife aud
Thlid with the rest, to be sold into slavery. The
Indians maze bad slaves. They were hard t.
hunted down, brought back and branded, They
never ceased TO be sullen and disobedient. The
situation . we're easily domesticatSd and bore
the yoke without murmuring. For that reason it
omy in Massachusetts TO exchange their worth
less Indians for valuable negroes, cheating their
get most Of the Indians of, and supplied them
selves with negroes in their places. The shame
used made slavery in Massachusetts the sum of an
ullainy. But they taught you more than that.
Their precept and example estab ishcd the
slavery OF whlte persons as well as Indians and
negroes. As their remorscless tyranny spared no
age and no sex, so it made no distinction Of color.
Besides the eaTgoes Of white herettcs which were
captured aud shipped TO them by their brethren
in England, they took special delight in fasteu-
ing their yoke on all who were suspected of
heterodoNy. One instance is worthy of special
attention. Lawrence Southwick and his vito
were Vuakcrs, and accused at the same time with
many others of attending Quaker meetings. or
'Syding will, Quakers, and ''abSentinE them
solves from the pabIc ordinance. The south
wicks had previously suffered so much in their
persons aud estates from tins KIND OF persecution
that 'hey could No longer work, or pay any more
lines, and therefore the general court by solemn
OF death. Banishment, you will not tail
TO office was in itself equivalent to lingering
NehNhf u Nuc pafllcH were poor Nud tcehlcs Tor u
meant merely driving them into the wilderness
TO staryc with hunger and cold, Southwick aud
his wife went out and died very soon. But this
was not all. This unfortunate pair had two chill
drcn-a boy and girl Daniel and Pruvidedl-who
having healthy constitutions would hriug IA good
price in the slave market. The children were
taken from their parents and ordered sold in the
West Indies. II happened, however, that there
was not y ~Shipmaster IN any port of the colony
who would consent to be the agent of their oxpor-
tatton and sale. Tho authorities being thus
baked in their views Of the main chance. were
faln TO be satisfied in another way. They ordered
the girl TO be whipped; she was dashed accord
lngly, in company with several other Quaker la
dies, and then committed to prison, to be further
proceeded against.
1t should not be forgotten that this is
only one case out of many similar ones
Mr.. Beecher, referring to negro slavery,
say that it existed but slightly IN Mas
sachusetts. But Judge Black, in the same
powerful article from which we make the
above extract, shows that it existed in its