Page:Notes on the History of Slavery - Moore - 1866.djvu/39

 murder, man-tealing, and Sabbath-breaking; the two firt capital by the fundamental laws of Maachuetts, and all of them "capital by the law of God." The magitrates doubted their authority to punih crimes committed on the coat of Africa; but they ordered the negroes to be ent back, as having been procured not honetly by purchae, but unlawfully by kidnapping. Hildreth, ., 282. ''Mass. Records,'', 67, 129, 136, 168, 176, 196; , 46, 49, 58, 84. Winthrop's Journal,, 243, 379.

In all the proceedings of the General Court on this occaion there is not a trace of anti-lavery opinion or entiment, till les of anti-lavery legilation; though both have been repeatedly claimed for the honor of the colony.

colonits of Maachuetts aumed to themelves "a right to treat the Indians on the footing of Canaanites or Amalekites," and practically regarded them from the firt as forlorn and wretched heathen, poeing few rights which were entitled to repect. Bancroft,, 408. ''Bp. Berkeley's Works,'' ., 247.