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# Soa SN ion ,. _ ". SS TO OUR OLD MASTERS. VOICE OF THE FUGITIVE. ~~ See SANDWICH, CANADA WEST. ac ta ra re ANI AIGA A WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1851. " ------ Oe List of Agents. Oaxapa Wrst ---Amherstburg, David Hoteh- kiss and Levi Foster. Cuarnam--James E. Grant. Dawn Muias--Gcorge Cary. 'Tononto.--S. Fisher. "Micmicar--M. J. Lightfoot, and Mr. Wiley, of Detroit; J: F. Dolbeare, Raison; Francis ginee: int; Dr. Barnes, Owasso ; H. Day, ausin#; Chester Gurney, Centreville; J. G. Farr, Commerce. 1! Missdonuserrs--R. F. Waleutt, 21, Cornhill, 'Nob Mrs. W. Blakemore, Boston ; J. Morse, fo. 5, Water-street ; Henry Richards, Tall "River; Rey. Wm. Brewster, Lowell ; Rufus Elmer, Springfield ; Rev. A. Stockman, Wor- ington; W, Harley, Northampton ; W. Fuller, Amherst; Rev. Mr, Foster, Littleville. New Jenscy.--Rev. E. P. Rogers, Newark. New York--Wm. Hamed, No. 61. John-st., New York; L. 0. Matlack, No. 3, Spruce-st. ; J. N. Glaucester, 40, West Broadway ; Win. Retter, Hudson; John Miles, Albany; G. W. Loeuen, John Lyle, Syracuse; George Weir, Jr., Buffalo; Lewis Clark, Busti. New Hamvsiume--Edward Bracket, Dover; A. T. Foss, Manchester; Elder Brooks, Great Falls. ' On10.--Wm. Merrett, Maumee city; EL KS Dovglass, Cleveland; Charles Langston, Colum- bus; J.R. Gains, Cincinnati. Pennsyivanra.--Dr. Bies, Philadelphia; M. R. Delancy, Pittsburg. eee eee eer . . in ATTENTION. 'This paper will be sent to some persons who have never subscribed for it, or been asked to do so by its agents. But as we have good reason to believe them to be in- terested in. the elevation of the people of color in North America, and especially those who have fled to Canada for their liberty. Hoping and believing as we do, that they will aid us in the support of such a paper, we forward it to them. If they do not wish it continued they will please return this number. ; ONE TIME MORE. ' We have repeatedly requested our friends in the States to direct all exchange papers destined for the Voice of the Fugitive, to etroit, Michigan. We hope that they will so. We would also most respectfully solicit our correspondents from the States to pay their postage, and direct to Detroit. i A WARNING VOICE TO THE FUGITIVES FROM SLAVERY WHO ARE YET ESO | IN pe UNITED STATES, To all such we say, think not that you are safe and out of danger while you are under the wings of the flesh-devouring eagle of America, which protects the liberties of fu- gitives from Southern bondage as the wolf protects the lamb. Be not flattered into the ef that you are not liable to be pounced by the man-thief, af any moment, be- uu may be surrounded by those who Sympathy for you, and say that you {not be carried back to slavery, many of whom, we fear, have more sympathy for the slave-catching law than they have for you. Think not that you are beyond the reach of the man-hunter and kidnapper anywhere ghort of her Majesty's dominions, which is ." the land of the brave" and a home for the elave. t M dear brethren, you are standing on a gandy foundation, and all that is dear and sacred to you in this life is at stake. True, you may perhaps make a little more money dn 'some places in the States than you can in Canada ; but what would it profit a freeman ifhe possessed all the gold of California if it should be the means of his losing his liberty ? Some may suppose that, with a large amount of money, their liberties might be purchased at the hands of slaveholders ; but this is vain imagination, nothing would gratify tho tyran- nical avenger but the last " pound of flesh " 'eirest to the victim's heart. Others may doubt this, and say it is timid and uncalled fer ; bat we have only to call the atfention of 'such to the 'recent' recapture and sale of Henry Long, the fugitive, which may be read in 'another column. No, brethren, there is 'no spot in the United States upon which the trembling fugitive from stripes and imprison- ménit can stand and not be liable to be seized by the " strong arm of 'the American Goyern- ment and hurried back to his bonds. _ Yes, ou may go and stand on the top of Plymouth otk, or scout around the plains of Lexington ) nd Concord, beneath which lie sleeping the "bones of our revolutionary fathers ; or hide beneath the shadow of Bunker Hill monu- * ment (which was consecrated to Liberty ', 'as did William and Ellen Craft, who were ompelled to flee {rom Boston to.England for yet you will be no. mofe safe than were, no less liable tovfall-w prey me your SEs pbs et eanaltviteg ake 5 ah stiber' th PEA. tan | so PHE PRESS AND THE PULPIT. These two gigantic agents are almost sistable and overwhelming, for good or evil, when vigorously brought to bear on the pub- One is said to be purely religious he other is called tem- They both stand out as tone to public up correct prin- d by; yet both ve cry that irre- lic mind. and spiritual, while t poral and political. the people's guides--giving opinion--and profess to hold ciples for them to be governe have deceived them by the delusi the press and pulpits are no places to expose the evils of war, intemperance, and slavery. fd atthe sin of intemper- Both have connive ar and blood- ance----both have advocated w | shed--both have supported the wicked preju- dice which exists in this country against the people of color. Both have apologised for, and even advocated the right, morally and politically, of American citizens to traffic and trade in the bodies and souls of their fellow- men; and " last. though not least," both have connived at and supported the national kidnapping enactment, which is called the Fugitive Slave Law ; a law that would dis- grace the statute books of the most barbarous nation on the globe. If ever saints wept, and hell rejoiced, it must have been over the passage of that law--a Jaw which has broken up, distressed and brought to degradation and poverty thousands of families,--kidnapped and converted freemen into slaves, and made the entire North a legal hunting ground for kidnappers and slavehunters,--for all this we hold the press and the pulpit verily guilty. But we do not mean to say, by this, that either are unnecessary instrumentalities, or that either should be dispensed with ; but we do say that, with this mighty influence and power which they are wielding over the pub- lic mind for the propagation of vice and im- morality, that they should be held in check by the common: people, without whom they could not be sustained a single month, or even a week; and this could be very eusily done without any sacrifice of principle, or infringement upon the rights of others. let the people demand at the hands of their clergymen,--an anti-war Gospel; an anti- sectarian Gospel ; an anti-prejudice Gospel ; an anti-rum-sucking Gospel, and an anti- slavery Gospel. Pay no " watchman to stand upon the walls" who refuses to cry the alarm when he sees danger approaching ; only hold = the purse-strings a little tighter, and demand of ministers and editors "the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," at the peril of their bread and butter, and we should soon bring about a moral revolution such as the world has not been blessed with since the Christian era. Say to the press that advo- cates mob violence, to put down free discns- sion, and to that editor who refuses to open his columns to plead the cause of down-trod- den humanity, or to rebuke the mad spirit of war and intemperance, that you will not support his paper, and the work is done. When the butter is put to the other side of the bread, they will soon turn it over. JUST FROM SLAVERY. James Madison, a young man about 24 years of age has just arrived, who was for- merly held by John T. Snypes,/a cotton- planter in the State of Georgia. After having been recaptured and locked up in prison several times, while passing through the State of Illinois, he has succeeded in his escape to Canada, in spite of all kidnappers in pro-slavery States. He wishes us to say to Mr. Snypes, that he is now living in the enjoyment of liberly; and that he (Mr. Snypes) need not give himself any more trouble about him ; and that the padlock and chain that were fastened to his arms, were left in the woods not far from where they took a glass of brandy at a certain hotel. In order that the above may be better un- derstood, we will just state that the owner of the above slave, on one ov;casion, accompanied by another slave-hunter, caught the victim of their search (James Madison) and locked his hands together, and chained him to the back part of their buggy, and compelled him. to walk after them in this way, destined to go back to the cotton-fields from whence he fled, and there to be made and example of before his fellow-servants, by suffering the penalty of atyrant's law. But they were so over- joyed at the recapture of their victim, that they stopped at almost every public house on their way, to drink and boast about what they, would do with him when they reached home. After they got about half drank they bestowed very little attention on their mana- cled yictim, whom they supposed was per- fectly safe at the hind part of the buggy. But the-artful slave happened to have a nail in his pocket, with which he picked the lock, and released himself, 'and left Mr. Snypes (who wen shning in high glee) without his perm ieelen a » (¢> Detroit River has been frozen over twice this season. Duiing the last frost, when the ice was not sufficiently strong to support passengers, Messrs. Clinton and Buker went to work and, cut a canal through the ice, and had their ferry-boat crossing while the [ice was stationary on either side, i -- ENSLAVING OF BRITISH SUBJECTS. After repeated outrages committed by the Slave States, and especially in S. C. upon the free citizens of the North, of both the white and colored population, whom they supposed to be opposed to their " peculiar institution," they have forcibly and unconstitutionally dragged free colored seamen from on board their vessels, and Jocked them within their common jails until they were ready to depart for the North ; yet nothing has been done to redress this flagrant outrage. At length they have commenced dragging colored seamen from under the British flag. and treating them just as they do their slaves for landing in their ports. But the Hon. G. B. Mathew, her Britannic Majesty's Consul resident at Charleston, South Carolina, has demanded the release of her Majesty's subjects, and the repeal of such laws enacted by that State as conflict with the national treaty. If they have a right to forcibly take away the liberties ofa black man, then they may with impunity take away those of a. white man; and, if they can take with impunity one man, they may take any or all men who may land on their shores, and lock them in prison. We hope that they may get their fill of this before it is done with. The matter has now been referred to the Legislature of the State, and we presume that the law will now be repealed. NEW SLAVE MARKET. It will be seen in another column. that chattel slavery is now established in Utah, among the Mormons, about Salt Lake ; and according to the view they take of their posi- tion upon this subject they permit their church members to trade and traffic in the bodies and souls of their colored brethren, or to hold and work them as property. We once thought that the great body of the Mor- mons might be honest in their intentions ; but since they have " defined their position " by opening their church doors for slavehold- ing and slave trading, we know that they are of the tribe of hell, and have only been suf- fering the just retributions of heaven for their God-defying hypocrisy. UNION SABBATH SCHOOL. Our fugitive brethren in Sandwich have just organized a Union Sabbath School, for the benefit and instruction of all ages, colors and sexes who will attend it. We had 36 old and young to commence with, and we doubt not that there will soon be more than double that number, judging from the interest manifested at the commencement. It is certainly one of the very kest means to in- culcate sound morality and a useful knowledge of the Scriptures among the people. In this school we lack Bibles and Testaments, which should be studied, even if we are deprived of other books which are of less consequence. TEMPERANCE IN CANADA. This cause isin a flourishing state among us. . We attended our monthly meeting on last Monday evening, where we listened to an interesting address from Mr. Robert Ward, upon the subject of temperance and union. Mr. George Bullit, also made some interest- ing remarks upon the subject. More than two-thirds of the colored inha- bitants of Sandwich township are actively engaged with us in pushing forward the cause of temperance. If, indeed the rumsellers had to depend on this particular class of our com- munity for support, they would very soon be as poor as rats on a sand bar, and would be compelled to abandon the pauper making business. We have very little confidence in the piety of any firofessor of religion, who will tolerate the use of intoxicating drinks as a beverage. Oh, how much better would the world of man- kind be, if the professed Church of Christ would only take this ground and maintain it ! THE DISHONORABLE DANIEL WEBSTER. The following extract, which explains itself, will show whether Mrs. Swisshelm had any foundation for saying what she did about Mr. Webster's intemperate, licentious and other dishonorable habits : " Over two thousand bottles of wine belong- ing to Daniel Webster, and taken from his cellar in Marshfield, were sold a few days ago at auction in Boston. These wines, which were of the most costly kind, were held, it is said, as security for a loan from a New York merchant, and were taken and sold to pay the debt which Webster had failed to meet."--Green Mountain Free- man. CAUTION. Mr. Epitor, will you please insert in the Voice of the Fugitive, the following : There is a man in this vicinity by the name of Wm. H. Lewis, who is in the prac- tice of going (in company with a woman who he calls his wife)'to the distributors of cloth- ing, and telling a very pitiful story, &c., say- ing tat just came out from slavery last fall. is not large; the, hair is off the front part of his head. We know him to b unworthy of public confidence. : Malden, Feb.-3.. D. Horcuxiss,. No. 2. In our Jast number we endeavored to show that human slavery had not invariably de- pended upon the inferiority (or the supposed inferiority) of the persons enslaved--that all classes and colors had alike been subjected to its influence, and that its existence, in the majority of instances, hinged upon the physical powers at the command of the enslavers. It is now our intention to show that the present humiliating position of our race forms no excep- tion to the general rule--thab we are slaves because you are stronger physic ally, not because of any natural or infellectual inferiority in us. This fact, by your own conduet, you admit ; or why do you so carefuily block up every channel which has been opened for our inst ruction? Aré we not justified in concluding that you are impregnated with the idea, that could we. re- ceive the same amount of care and attention which has been bestowed upon yourselves, that we could, in all probability, exhibit an equal degree of mental power, by which means you vould entirely lose your control over us? This conclusion appears to us inevitable; and we will giye you what we conceive to bea very strong reason for our conviction : Many of you have taken considerable pains to 'instruct do- mestic animals in various branches of know- ledge. Horses and dogs--those two tost in- valuable servants of man--have received the greatest amount of a{tention in this respect, and» the more apt the scholar appeared to be, the more assiduous has his master become in afford- ing him instruction. Now, we have never known an instance where the master of any domestic animal thus in course of training, has abandoned the educational process in the apprehension that the dog or the horse could possibly become as learned as himself; and yet, in our own case, itis evident, that, while the majority of you endeavor to persuade the world that our intellectual capacity is very little above the level of the brute creation, you are so afraid that we should arrive at your own standard, that you dare not allow any one to instruct us. We find that this assumption of our mental inferiorily is not generally entertained among the highly enlightened ; they are disposed to admit us into the ranks of progressive beings ; itis among the badly educated, atrogant, and half-finished portion of your race--men, dimi- nutive in intellect, butgiantsin self-esteem--who are compensated for their lack of wisdom by their measureless stock of impudence, imagin- ing, forsooth, because they belong to an elevated elass of beings, that all who differ from them in color are little better than a superior order of monkeys; while, in reality, if these inflated intellectual abortions were placed in the position best adapted for them in creation, they would form the tails of the colored races, thereby rendering the assumed resemblance tv the brute creatiou more striking. Many men of great attainments, and who are entitled to rank as philosophers, have fallen into the vulgar prejudice on this subject. De Vastey, one of our brethren, an African of St. Domingo, thus alludes to this class of writers: © Posterity will find if difficult to believe that, in an enlightened age like ours, there are men, who call themselves philosophers, willing to reduce human beings to an equality with brutes, merely for the sake of sanctioning the abomi- nable privilege of oppressing a large portion of mankind. While I am now writing, I cun scarcely refrain from laughter, at the absurdities which have been published on this subject. Learned authors, and skilful anatomists, have passed their lives in diseussing facts as clear .as daylight, aud in dissecting the bodies of men and animals, in order to prove that I, who am now writing, belong to the race of Ourang- Outaugs! Edward Long gravely advances, as a proof of the moral inferiority of the black man, that our vermin are black, and that we eat wild-cats: Hannemian maintains that our color originates in the curse pronounced by Noah against Canaan ; others affirm that it was a mark fixed upon Cain, for the murder of his hrother Abel. For myself, I see strong reasons to believe that the white men are the real de- seendants of Cain ; for J still find in them that primitive hatred, that spirit of envy and of pride, and that passion for riches, which the Scriptures inform us led him to sacrifice his brother. Here it will oe observed, that one of our calumniated race shows himself capable of entering the arena and vindicating his claim to an equality with the whites, in a diction as polished, and with ideas as forcible as have been elicited on the opposite side of the ques- tion, Wantiof space necessarily compels us to be rief ; but we will continue this subject in our next and following numbers. STARVATION IN IRELAND. We clip the following from, the recent speech of Mr. Walker, of Wisconsin, deliver- ed in the Senate of the United States, in which he suid ; _ "We have thie authority of a speech Fide in Parliament by Henry Grattan for saying that there perished of starvation over one hundred and sixteen thousand persons during the late famine. Nearly as many perished in the famine of 1822 These are some of the frightful results of the causes I have men- tioned, under the very throne of England, and within seven days' sail of America, in a coun- try, too, with a population not exceeding thirty millions ; while her best authorities admit her land to be capable of sustaining in high comfort a population of one hundred and eighty millions, if the peoble were allowed to cultivate it--in a country, furthermore, where "the higher classes have advanced in luxury beyond measure !" sige de _ O&& There is a negro living near Palestine in Wisconsin, who is the father of fifty-six children, has buried seven wives, and now, at the age of more than ninety years, is courting for the eighth wife-- Detroit Trabune ELDER MONROE & FATHER HENSON. 'Those two gentlemen are both in England, and we understand, by letter, that they are in the city of London. Rev. H. H. Garnet is also in the same city. They are all men of distinction, bearing high moral and reli- gious characters in their native lund, in addj- tion to their intellectual abilities ; and we doubt not that we, the oppressed millions of this country, shall be truthfully and ably te- presented in Kurope by them, wherever they may go. [To the Editor of the Voice of the Fu; itive } Friend H Brss, Dear Sir,--I am glad to hear you are about publishing a paper called the Voice of the Fugitive, with a view to give the friends of the fugitives a more perfect knowledge of their situation and wants in Canada West. Such a paper is much needed at the pre- sent gime. I feel greatly interested in the welfare of my colored brethren; I wish to know where I can apply the small means J have to the best possible advantage. I have sent $15 to Bro. Hiram Wilson ; and $16 I have put into the hands of friend Ru FP, Walcut, to be sent to Mr. Rice at Amerst- burg, to aid the flying fugitive. Iam a feeble, unhealthy man, under the necessity of resting on my bed two or more times a day, still Tam a laboring man. 7 am able to earn about fifty cents per day ; a con- siderable portion of my hand earnings I de- vote to the cause of suffering humunily. I inclose in this $1 to pay for one copy of the Voice of the Fugitive. I venture to send a Springfield Bill, thinking it will go, in your locality, on a small discount. Yours for the outcast and down-trodden of our race, Joun Caxkins. South Wilbraham, Mass., Dec. 24. COLORED SETTLEMENTS. The following is a new settlement in the township of Sandwich, which was -com- menced in 1845, then known as the Sandwich Mission; but which is now known' as the Colored Industrial Society. The Rev. T. collecting several hundred dollurs for it, whi¢ sum was expended in the purchase of 20 . acres of timbered Jand, within eight miles of Detroit, but on the Canada side. 'The above land has now been divided into ten-acre lots, and sold out to such colored persons as wished to avail themselves of its advantages (by complying with its rules and regulations), with a reservation of 25 acres fora church and school-house for the institution. Several families have already moved on the premises, and are clearing off their land. We are in- formed that the trustees intend to enlazge settlement, by the purchase of more lund, fast as their means will allow them. We are authorized to say, that 1¢ Rev. John Jackson and the Rev. Israel Camel, of Windsor, C. W., are agents for the above Settlement. Elgin Settlenrent. €. : This Settlement is located ju © township of Raleigh, and contains abowt ten thousand acres of land. It is an enterprize got up by the Rev. William King, for the benefit of the people of color in Canada West. Most of this land is now taken up; it is also well laid off, we understand, and thit there is at this time over sixty families settled on it, and that it bids fair to make a prosperous com- munity. : Mr. King is a consistent emancipationist. He has not only set free a large number of slaves at the South, but has brought them to Canada and settled them on land of their own. 4 (<- A colored settlement in the township if Colchester, called the New Canaan Settle- ment, was established by Rev. Mr. E. Kirk- land. This, too, is becoming a strong and prosperous settlement under his supervision ; they have a good school and' meeting: house, and our brethren are clearing off good farms and becoming owners of the soil. Th L tlement is about ten miles east of the te of Malden. (y- We would most respectfully recom- mend the friends of humanity in the United States, everywhere to circulate the following form of petition among the people : of the United States : ; We, the undersigned, inhabitants of ask for the immediate repeal of the law passed at the last session of Congress, in relation to.the surrender of fugitive slaves. ' : Legal Voters. | Other Persons. Let petitions after the above form, be sent in to the Congress of the United States by thousands for the immediate and everlasting repeal of the fugitive slave law. New ae 7. The Empire City arrived at a little past three o'clock, with 210 passengers and one million of dollars in gold. She brings ad- vices from San Francisco to Jan. 1. The mails are not on board. The news from the Isthmus is unimportant. About 80 houses were destroyed at Gorgona on the 28th Jan. Losa not known. ' " To the Senate and House of Representatives & Willes, who was then its agent, tr ch