Provided Southwick was ſubſequently in the ſame year, in company with ſeveral other Quaker ladies, "whipt with tenn ſtripes," and afterwards "committed to priſon to be proceeded with as the law directs." Maſs. Records, iv., i, 411.
The indignant Quaker hiſtorian, in recounting theſe things, ſays, "After ſuch a manner ye have done to the Servants of the Lord, and for ſpeaking to one another, … and for meeting together, ranſacking their Eſtates, breaking open their Houſes, carrying away their Goods and Cattel, till ye have left none, then their wearing apparel, and then (as in Plimouth government) their Land; and when ye have left them nothing, ſell them for this which ye call Debt. Search the Records of former Ages, go through the Hiſtories of the Generations that are paſt; read the Monuments of the Antients, and ſee if ever there were ſuch a thing as this ſince the Earth was laid, and the Foundations thereof in the Water, and out of the Water. …. O ye Rulers of Boſton, ye Inhabitants of the Maſſachuſetts! What ſhall I ſay unto you? Whereunto ſhall I liken ye? Indeed, I am at a ſtand, I have no Nation with you to compare, I have no People with you to parallel, I am at a loſs with you in this point; I muſt ſay of you, as Balaam ſaid of Amalek when his eyes were open, Boſton, the firſt of the Nations that came out thus to war againſt, to ſtop Iſrael in their way to Canaan from Egypt." Biſhop's N. E. Judged, 90.
At the time of King Philip's War, the policy and practice of the Colony of Maſſachuſetts, with regard to ſlavery, had been already long ſettled upon the baſis of poſitive law. Accordingly the numerous
