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Sir William Phips, although present, did not sign the Death-warrant of Bridget Bishop. The Reviewer expresses, over and over again, his great surprise at the view given in my book of Cotton Mather's connection with Salem witchcraft. It is quite noticeable that his language, to this effect, was echoed through that portion of the Press committed to his statements.
As to Mather's being on horseback, the argument seems to be, that it was customary, then, for people to travel in that way!
This is a kind of reasoning with which to adopt Mather's expression in describing diabolical horrors, capital trials, and condemnations to death we are "entertained" throughout by the Reviewer. The truth is, we have no particular knowledge of the machinery, or its operations, at these executions. A "halter," a "ladder," a "gallows," a "hangman," are spoken of.
From a child I was fond of reading, and laid out all my little money on books, such as Bunyan's works, which I sold to get Burton's "Historical Collections"; and in my father's little library there were Plutarch's "Lives," De Foe's "Essays on Projects," and Mather's "Essays to do Good."
This is one of Cotton Mather's "Remarkable Judgments of God, on Several Sorts of Offenders," and the next cases referred to are the Judgments on the "Abominable Sacrilege" of not paying the Ministers' Salaries. This sort of thing does n't do here and now, you see, my young friend!
See Hutchinson's History, vol. i. p. 455. Ibid, p. 40. Code of 1650, p. 90. Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, vol. ii., p. 13.
He says that he "denounced" its course, "as illegal, uncharitable, and cruel." There is, indeed, not a shadow of foundation for this statement, as to Mather's relation to the Court; but it absolutely precludes the Reviewer from such an interpretation as he attempts, of the expression of Brattle. The Reviewer says: "If Mr.
I again ask attention to the language used in the North American Review, for April, 1869. "These views, respecting Mr. Mather's connection with the Salem trials, are to be found IN NO PUBLICATION OF A DATE PRIOR TO 1831, when Mr. Upham's Lectures were published."
But alas, Cotton Mather's conversation was limited to yea, yea, and nay, nay generally, nay, nay and he was in dead earnest. In the Boston Public Library is a book written in Sixteen Hundred Eighty-five by Cotton Mather, entitled, "Wonders of the Invisible World." This book received the endorsement of the Governor of the Province and also of the President of Harvard College.
As to the books and furniture of the schoolhouse, they belonged to the community, excepting Cotton Mather's "History of Witchcraft," a "New England Almanac," and a book of dreams and fortune-telling; in which last was a sheet of foolscap much scribbled and blotted in several fruitless attempts to make a copy of verses in honor of the heiress of Van Tassel.
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