The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-05-07
ANOTHER PAGE OF HISTORY
Mr.. Depew's Claims for New England
Further Reviewed.

which the people OF New England iia't
manifested in the manufacture OF histories
,lesioned to exalt themselves, at the ex
pense of the people of other sections OF the
country. | have deemed it my duty tC
challenge the veracity Of their narratives
and in this article shall again expose some
of Mr.. Depew preposterous historical state
ments.
Mr.. Richard Grant White, the distin,
n1ished author. whose ancestors came over
with the Puritans in 1886, and settled al
Cambridge. Massachusetts, in an article
nnblished in the North american Rerie'r,
said: s.The North fought in the war for
money and for nothing else. After the
first flush of enthusiasm, caused by the
bombardment of Fort Sumpter-firinS on
the Aag-had subsidized, the contest
became one of money for the sake Of mon
ey. The war was virtually carried on by
the moneyed men, the business men OF the
North. They furnished its 'sinews, and
this they did for their own purposes and
in their own interests.
sMany of them grew rich by the means
of the war; most Of them saw that IN It's
successful prosecution lay their future pros
perity. The war time was money-mak-
inc process The real victors were the
money makers, merchants, bankers, manu-
facturers, railway men, monOpollsts and
speculators. 1t was their cause that had
trIumphed under the banner of Freedom
The continued fondness of New En-
glands soldiers in the field for riches and
the dollar manifested itself during the war
in the form of coniscation, robbery and
wholesale pilage This fact can be sup
ported by the testimony Of their own news
papers. Afterthe battle of Fredericksburg
the New York 7liJuBe said: Elegant
china and most choice libraries Of books,
rare works of art, are all heaped together
in the streets and are scrambled for as trn-
PIXIES"
In many instances valuable libraries,
works of art, silver plate, rich tapestries,
elegant chairs, sofas, glassware, china and
even pianos were carried off and sent North
to decorate the homes of some of the New
England soldiers Many persons will, per
haps. recall the fact that General Forrest
captured Il steamboat on the Tennessee river
loaded with 200 stolen pianos, which were
being sent North.
The New York Christian hqHircr, in
speaking of these outrages, said: 'ln several
libraries of New England clergyman we
have seen choice volumes Of great cost
bearing the names of Southern ministers
to whom they still belong, though they
have been sent North by Yankee soldiers;
who have appropriated them. Some Mas
sachusetts parlors are said to be carpetcd
with spoils of another kind. y
The New York Hcrdid of June 18th,
1868, said ''How different is the course
pursued by the Rebels when they crossed
the Potomac. s. s. + They have given no
towns to the flames and they have destroyed
no private houses, and taken no private
property but what they have paid for. > j
In short, they did not retaliatc for the out
RACES perpetrated by Montgomery and gen
erals like him.
NEW ENGLAND AND SLAVERY.
Now let us refer to the other remarka-
bic claims of Mr. Depcw for the New En-
gland puritans. Slavery, as a social condi-
ton, existed in Massachusetts almost from
the beginning of the colony, and its legis
lative history dates from the statute Of l6il,
the first statute establishing slavery in
America. On the 2nd of June of the same
year, the Massachusetts General Court
passed the first fugitive slave law of North
America, by which it was declared: "If the
Indians send not back our runaways, then
by commission from the Governor and any
three of the Magistrates, it is lawful TO
sead and take So many as to satisfy for the
want of them and for the charge Of send
ing them.
During the early Indian wars of Massa-
chusetts tn women and children who were
taken prisoners by the Colonists were made
slaves. Some were retained in servitude IN
the colony, others given to the Indian allies
of the whites, and great numbers were sent
to the West Indies. Among these last was
the son of King Philip, the grandson Of
Massasoit, the constant friend of the Eng
lish. The Plymouth colony in 1873 or
dered fifty-seven Indians to be sold. In
1857 $50 were to be paid for the sea Fps Of
adult Indians, and ''for every child of the
said enemy, under the aye of II years, that
shall be by them slain, the sum of SO;
and that such party or parties shall also
have and keep unto their own use all plum
der and prisoners BY them taken of the
enemy
At this time the New iingland ships
made the voyage to England with tobacco,
rice and other Southern products, and then
took in British manufactures for the Gold
Coast, which they exchanged for blacks,
returning with these to the Sothern colo
MES where they sold them. Lord Sheffield
in his report to the British Parliament m
der date of 1777, says, that "out of the
slavers which periodically left Boston, thir-
teen of them were loaded with rum only,
and that having exchanged this for 2SSS
negroes with the Governors of the Gold
Coast, they carried them thence to the
Southern Colonies" The same report
mentions that during the three years end
ing with 1870, New England had sent
270,147 gallons of rum to the Gold Coast.
The Duke de ROcheloucault-L iancourt, in
his work on the United States published
in 1895, says that "twenty vessels from the
harbors of the North are engaged in the
importation Of slaves into Georgia; they
ship one negro for every ton burden.
The Provincial Congress of Massachu-
sets prohibited the enlistment of slaves in
the army; thus showing that slavery legally
existed there in May, 1175 The Rev.
Or. Belknap, the historian, who lived in
Boston as late as 1895, admitted the ex-
istenee of slavery in Massachusetts at that
time, aud that the slave trade was prose-
cuted by merchants in Massachusetts, He
said ",The slaves purchased in Africa
were chiefly sold in the West Indies or in
the Southern Colonies but when these
markets were glutted and the prices low
some of them were brought hither" The
census of 1860 declares that s'the first slave
ship fitted ont in the English Colonies
sailed from Rostnn in 1914 - AZ lone, oS