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 rights, the ame indifference to uffering, the ame contempt for the oppreed races, the ame hate for thoe who are injured. It has been aerted that in Maachuetts, not only were the mieries of lavery mitigated, but ome of its wort features were wholly unknown. But the record does not bear out the uggetion; and the traditions of one town at leat preerve the memory of the mot brutal and barbarous of all, "raiing laves for the market." Barry's Hanover, 175.

The firt newpapers publihed in America illutrate among their advertisements the peculiar features of the intitution to which we refer, and in their canty columns of intelligence may be found thrilling accounts of the barbarous murders of maters and crews by the hands of their lave-cargoes. The cae of the Amitad negroes had its occaional parallel in the colonial hitory of the traffic—excepting that the men of New England had a ympathy at home in the 17th and 18th centuries, which was jutly withheld from their Spanih and Portuguee imitators in the 19th. Nor was that region wholly exempt from the terror by day and by night of lave inurrections. In Coffin's Newbury, 153, is a notice of a conpiracy of Indian and negro laves "to obtain their inalienable rights,"—apparently a cheme of ome magnitude.