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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Colonial history. (search)
achusetts, were not demanded, as would have been done in case of acknowledged crime; so that the magistrates acted as if witch-law did not extend beyond their jurisdiction. Witnesses convicted of perjury were cautioned, and permitted still to swear away the lives of others. It was certain, people had been tempted to become accusers by promise of favor. Yet the zeal of Stoughton was unabated, and the arbi trary court adjourned to the first Tuesday in November. Between this and then, wrote Brattle, will be the great assembly, and this matter will be a peculiar subject of agitation. Our hopes, he adds, are here. The representatives of the people must stay the evil, or New England is undone and undone. Far different was the reasoning of Cotton Mather. He was met continually with all sorts of objections and objectors against the work doing at Salem. The Chap. XIX.} obstinate Sadducees, the witch advocates, who esteemed the executions to be judicial murders, gained 1692 such in