He employed caresses, threats, and even violence, in order to prevent them from executing this fatal resolution.” Ibid., pp. 45-46.  In November, 1620, the Pilgrims or Puritans made the harbor of Cape Cod, and after solemn vows and organization previous to setting foot on shore, they landed safely on “Plymouth Rock,” December the 20th, about one month after.  They were one hundred and one in number, and from the toils and hardships consequent to a severe season, in a strange country, in less than six months after their arrival, “forty-four persons, nearly one-half of their original number,” had died.

...  “In 1618, in the reign of James I, the British government established a regular trade on the coast of Africa.  In the year 1620, negro slaves began to be imported into Virginia:  a Dutch ship bringing twenty of them for sale.”—­Sampson’s Hist.  Dict., p. 348.  The Dutch ship landed her cargo at New Bedford, (now Massachusetts,) as it will be remembered, that the whole coast, now comprising the “Old Thirteen,” and original United States, was then called Virginia, so named by Sir Walter Raleigh, in honor of his royal Mistress and patron, Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen, under whom he received his royal patent commission of adventure and expedition.

Beginning their preparation in the slave-trade in 1618, just two years previous, giving time for successfully carrying out the project against the landing of the first emigrant settlers, it will be observed that the African captain, and the “Puritan” emigrants, landed upon the same section of the continent at the same time, 1620—­the Pilgrims at Plymouth, and the captives at New Bedford, but a few miles comparatively south.

The country at this period, was one vast wilderness.  “The continent of North America was then one continued forest."...  There were no horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, or tame beasts of any kind....  There were no domestic poultry....  There were no gardens, orchards, public roads, meadows, or cultivated fields....  They “often burned the woods that they could advantageously plant their corn."...  They had neither spice, salt, bread, butter, cheese, nor milk....  They had no set meals, but eat when they were hungry, and could find any thing to satisfy the cravings of nature....  Very little of their food was derived from the earth, except what it spontaneously produced....  The ground was both their seat and table....  Their best bed was a skin....  They had neither steel, iron, nor any metallic instruments....—­Ramsay’s Hist., pp. 39-40.

We adduce not these historical extracts to disparage our brother the Indian—­far be it:  whatever he may think of our race, according to the manner in which he has been instructed to look upon it, by our mutual oppressor the American nation; we admire his, for the many deeds of noble daring, for which the short history of his liberty-loving people are replete:  we sympathise with them, because