The Crisis On the Origin And Consequences of Our Political Dissensions
The Crisis On the Origin And Consequences of Our Political Dissensions
Israel Thorndike Pamphlet Collection Library of C
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Striking is this delu- bion in its resemblance, and more fatal in its effects, than that which doomed to an ignominious death, the wretched inhabi- tants of Salem, for the supposed crime of witchcraft. It wkl doubtless be recollected by some of our readers, that in an ear- )y period of our history, some of the good people of Salem, in the then colony of Massachusetts, discovered that that town was infested with witches — and to prove it, said they had seen them, and suffered by their witchcraft...s. In that period of our history it appears, that the evidence of the accuser was admitted as competent on the trial of. These un- fortunate victims of delusion ; and on such evidence only, great numbers of the most respectable citizens of that town were con- signed to death for the supposed crime of witchcraft. But so of- ten and so indiscriminately were these strange accusations made, that it led to an apprehension, that, in that mysterious business, 7J there might be " something rotten in the state of Denmark p and on a review of the origin and progress of that event, it was found that no evidence but that of the accuser had ever been ex- hibited against the unfortunate victims who had suffered, and that no other person had ever seen witches in Salem.
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