indeed!  Does it follow that the Indian or the African must go to the judge on his bench, or to the Governor, Senator, or indeed any other man, to ask for a help-meet, because his name may be found on the voter’s list, or in the jury boxes?  I promise all concerned, that we Marshpees have less inclination to seek their daughters than they have to seek ours.  Should the worst come to the worst, does the proud white think that a dark skin is less honorable in the sight of God than his own beautiful hide?  All are alike, the sheep of his pasture and the workmanship of his hands.  To say they are not alike to him, is an insult to his justice.  Who shall dare to call that in question?

Were I permitted to express an opinion, it would be that it is more honorable in the two races, to intermarry than to act as too many of them do.  My advice to the white man is, to let the colored race alone.  It will considerably diminish the annual amount of sin committed.  Or else let them even marry our daughters, and no more ado about amalgamation.  We desire none of their connection in that way.  All we ask of them is peace and our rights.  We can find wives enough without asking any favors of them.  We have some wild flowers among us as fair, as blooming, and quite as pure as any they can show.  But enough has been said on this subject, which I should not have mentioned at all, but that it has been rung in my ears by almost every white lecturer I ever had the misfortune to meet.

I will now entreat the reader’s attention to the very able plea of Mr. Hallett, upon our petition and remonstrances.  The following are his remarks after the law which gave us our liberty was passed by his exertions in our cause: 

    I will now briefly consider the “documents, relating to the
    Marshpee Indians,” which have been presented and printed, this
    session, by the two Houses.

The first is a Memorial, signed by seventy-nine males and ninety-two females, of the Plantation.  Of the seventy-nine males, sixty-two are Proprietors, and forty-four write their own names.  They are all united in wishing to have a change of the laws, and a removal of the Overseership, but desire that their land may not be sold without the mutual consent of the Indians and the General Court.

This memorial represents, 1.  That no particular pains has been taken to instruct them. 2.  That they are insignificant because they have had no opportunities. 3.  That no enlightened or respectable Indian, wants Overseers. 4.  That their rulers and the minister have been put over them, without their consent. 5.  That the minister, (Mr. Fish,) has not a male member in his church of the Proprietors, and they believe twenty years would have been long enough for him to have secured their confidence. 6.  That the laws which govern them and take away their property, are unconstitutional. 7.  That the whites have had three times more benefit of the Meeting-house