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"im shanna geen temas > 5 sae mpeg ther appigrn == seer ey vad > "ee retary ¥ " co nee an -- ow ii For the Voice of the Fugitive. A Parody. *Chain'd in the market-place he stood, A man of noble frame, Amid the gathering multitude, And Jack they called his name: * All stern of look and strong of limb, His dark eye on the ground, Tnsultingly they gazed on him, Tn cruel fetters bound. . The lofty frown his visage 'wore, Showed courage true and brave, The scars his back that covered o'er, _ Told-that he was a slave, A tear that stole adown his cheek, Bespoke the grief within ; A massive ring about his neck, Proclaim'd his awful sin. For black his skin and curl' his hair, He thus desery'd the chains, » That bound him in a country where * They boast that freedom reigns. A demon master, craving gold, . Had to the market driven, And, like a beast of burden, sold The rights that God had given. Life, happiness, and liberty -- These are the rights he gave, Yet Jack, for gold, wis donm'd to be A Christian brother's slave. And nature's tenant dare ye bind? Dare ctush the soul within-- And make the darkness of the mind Still darker than the skin ? Then wept poor Jack when master bade ' To send him far away; Bonds were his joy while there he staid, ~ And stripes the live-long day ; For well he loy'd that loving wife-- His flesh, his blood, his bone; Dearer to him by far than life-- His children not his own. He knelt as humbly he did say, "My wife she longs to see, ._ And my young children Ieave their play, And ask in yain for me." The master's heart was tempered steel ; "hey are not yours," he said; He knew not how--he could not feel, He was to kindness dead. Strong were the agonies that shook The captive's frame to hear, And the proud meaning of his look, No longer did appear. "His heart was broken, craz'd his brain, At once his eye grew wild; He struggled fiercely with his chain ; - He whispered, wept and smiled. But still submitted to his fate, "While nature to him seems hapeless huge oppressive weight ' f fitful fever'd dreams, ; Yet wore not long those fatal chains, For once at shut of day, : They drew him forth upon the plains, _Of carrion birds the prey. : : HeEnpr. > CORRESPONDENCE, %.. 8. R, WARD'S LETTERS, vn No. 2. fe Bree, Bagh ony Dear Sir,--It is sometime since I wrote you, _but I shall be able to write more regularly in future. I have been to Hamilton|and Brantford this winter, to the former, seyeral times. I saw there,as I see by your paper, a fact in regard to our people which somewhat surprised me. Itis, that most of our people vote for Tory candidates. Ido not agree with them in this, and, of course, I do not agree with you. My politicalyprinciples, in Canada, are the same as they were in the U.S. J cannot agree to that sort of conserya- tism, which alternately gives support to and de: "rives support from political and religious mono- polies. The most mortifying fact that came to my notice in all our late election, was the de- _meanor of our people in Kent, towards G. Brown, Esq. That gentleman, by his pen, his press, his tongue, and his purse, had for years exhibited the most thorough, consistent and efficient friendship forthe cause of the down trodden, yet some of those, who best knew these facts, yoted against , him. Gerrit Smith has been treated just, so, in _the State of New York, andsohaye others. You defended your neighbors yoting for Col, Prince, because he ywas a tried friend, in your opinion. That rule should certainly have applied in the case of Mr. Brown. Another fact that I noticed was, that instead of}? our people being such a pack of paupers as some 'represent them, that they are generally in com- fortable cirenmstances, many of them much better a like number of Europeans. 'Thosé who immediately from slavery come destitute, of ~ course, as a general thing, but those who have re- sided any time in the province, are generally free from destitution, and where they are otherwise, itis generally owing to their indolence, intemper- anee, orsomething oftliat sort. Isce in Douglass' ; paper a letter from Br. Loguen, giving a most de- plorable account of the condition of our people in St, Catherines, But I am informed by a Mr. Duncan, residing in that plac, that fugitives are promptly relieved upon their arrival at that place, and tliat a considerable number of the older resi- dents are owners of realestate. As to the stato of things in Toronto and in Hamilton, I can say, from actual observation, that extreme suffering is scarcely known among the black people, while some who are far from being as industrious and deserving as they ought to be, receive nid to which they would hardly seem to be entitled. _ Ido not for xmoment doubt, that the black race of América have claims upon the white which will neyer be cancelled, Those who have robbed us and our ancestors of home, life, and libsrty for 282 years, for the purpose of extorting from us toil for nought, can neyer pay the hundredth part of the interest of what they oweus, But it does not therefore follow that we should perpetually put oureelves before the world as a class of beggars. I '| build a separate church, perhaps a number of them '| begging towr. Then a separate school must be am afraid, however, that too many of our moye- ments have much of this character. We want to in the same town,--we start some preacher on a begged for; next a colored minister must be sup- ported by some such begging. In Canada this abominable beggary is showing itself. The con- sequence is, that we are ever held up, and eyer despised as a.host of beggars, though we live ina country as free for us as for others. The world knows the difference between a class of beggars and a class of workers. The world knows, too, that were the time spentin begging employed in honest productive toil, that it would be better for all con- cerned. In the majority of instanees, where we have begged for separate schools, churches, and preachers, there was so little need of them that their existence was a greater injury than benefit. So in the majority of cases where individuals beg, instead of working, to give them what they beg for, does them more harm than good. What the poor need, here and elsewhere, is not aid from others all their lives, but to be put into a position to miserable habit of idling about our towns and village let them be encouraged to go into the country, and bi come tillers and owners of the soll. Let them be aide in the acquiring of education, let them be induced to give up alcoholic habits and beverages, the loye of which is too common among us, and we should . ot constantly need to have letters. written to friends, or foes in the United States, asking contributions in our behalf. Be sides were onr people to scatter themselyes over the country, while the anti slavery society of Canada are seeking to interest the rural population in our cause, it would be far easier to overcome Canadian negro hate, much of which, it must be confessed, is created by the bad manners, and bad position, and bad character of too many of us, in the towns and villages. Tshould have been west longago, hut for my poverty ; ITcame here without means, and: I have done next to no business. I have preached and spoken several times, but in hine cases out often, I have not realized enough to pay travelling'expenses when abrond, and, " God bless you, Brother Ward,' is esteemed, by those for whom] speak, abundant compensation at home, What little I have re ceived does not warrant me in taking a long journey in mid winter, with no prospect of compensution for myself, or support for my family. When I can afford it, most gladly will I visit the west. God sparing me,I shall go upon a farm in April, and I hope, by the use of my hoe, tosupply the the wants of my family, and, occasionally, by my pen, to fill a very small corner of your paper. January 31, 1852. For the Voice of the lugitive. ANTLSLAVERY IN MICHIGAN. Farmington, Feb. 2, 1852, Dear Henry,--I wish to say a few things to our friends on various subjects; and if you will permit, I will now and then talk to them through the Voice. Tn the first place, I wish' to speak of the State Convention to be held on the 25th instant. I could wish each one ofthe friends of the slave saw and felt the importance of that convention. Itisnow seyeral years since such a convention was held. For some time we haye not hada State organ even, through which to hear from and communicate with each other. Hence we have become, in a manner, estranged from each other, and just so far have we lost our interest in the good cause of human rights, grown luke warm, and relaxed our active efforts for their preservation. I have no doubt there are many who would be sure to at- tend, if they were sure of a good attendance and a good meeting. Now it is certain if each one makes the interest of the meeting a matter for which he is himself responsible--is particular to attend, and in case he cannot go, sees to it that some one or more of the friends in the neighbor- hood do attend, eyen at some little pecuniary sacrifice on his part; I say if the friends take this course we shall have a good meeting. In circu- lating the call for the convention, it was discovered that many of the leading minds in the State had been awake to the iniportance of such a conyen- tion for some time. Another cireumstance of no small interest to the writer is the fact that, having travelled many miles, through cold and storm, visiting the friends in various parts of the State, in order to ascertain their minds and get names to the call, haying arrived at the house of a promi- nent and active helper in the good cause, he \had the pleasure of taking by the hand the father-of abolitioniém in this State, who had come on the same errand, viz, to get up a call for a conven- vention, 5; Brethren and friends, do you love this cause ? then come to convention ; come with a determined spirit to do good battle for the right. Be sure to come, or help others to come, _ I wish to say a word about one other subject : It is in contemplation to take measures to set in motion the mighty engine of the free distribution of tracts. The time has come when this mode of warfare will be mighty to the pulling down of strongholds, Come then, friends to the conyen- tion, but, before you leave your homes, put a little change in your pockets to aid in the printing of tracts--Anti-slavery Tracts, to be sown broad- cast, like goad seed, which, no doubt, in due time, will bear an abundant harvest, ; Anti-Slavery Convention in Cincin= nati, Ohio. Friends of Freedom: _ We invite you to meet in convention in Cin- cinnati, on Tuesday, Wednes 'ay, and Thursday, April 27th, 28th and 29th, 1852, commencing at half past nine o'clock, a. m., on the first-named day. We call upon you without distinction of party, to come together in th: spirit of fraternal loye, to itiquire what more can be done for the three millions of slaves in these United States, and to take such advance measures as a pure Christi- anity, 2 true patriotism, and an exalted charity require of sound hearted philant' ropists, How mony of you will be ready to respond to this call? How many of you will turn aside for a few days, from your ordinary ayocations, to give attention to the cties of humanity? How help themselyes. Let poor fugitives be discouragedinthe} many of you will Jay by some of the funds you ordinarily spend beyond your necessities, to save enough to take you to the convention, or to send a representative from your neighbo-hood? Come friends, prove your faith by your works, and let the poor, crushed slaves have some comfort of hope, in hearing of a great and enthusiastic con- vention of deyoted men and women from all parts of our extensive country, aveeping over their wrongs, and pouring out words of fire in adyocacy of their rights. ; We offer you our hospitalities, and shall be happy to entertain our guests in a way to make their visit agreeable to them. Come and Jet us lay our gifts upon the altar of an exalted and exalting faith, and renew our christian vow, that wh Ist there is aslave to be liberated, there shall not be wanting an abolitionist to strike the fetters from his limbs. , ' {a We respectfully solicit the editors of newspapers throughout the country, to insert the abovejeall in their respective papers. Committee of Ladies : Mrs. Sarah H. Earnst. » Elizabeth Coleman. Julia Harwood, » A. Mann. » Mary M. Guild. ' Miss Kesiah Emory. _ Committee of Gentlemen: Edward Harwood. John H. Coleman, -- John Joliffe. Christian Donaldson. Wm. Henry Brisbane, Levi Coffin. Cincinnati, O., Jan. 5th, 1852. 7 a, From the Pennsylyania Freeman, CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. SENATE. Wednesday, Jan. 21. Mr. Downs presented seyeral memorials complaining of the action of the late Board of Commissioners on Claims against Mexico, and movéd that they be referred to a Select Committee of five Senators, with power to send for persons and papers. Upon this there was an exciting debate, which ended in aveference of the memorials to the Com- mittee on Foreion Relations. Mr. Seward, fromthe Committee on Com- merce, reported a joint,resolution authori- zing: the exploration and reconnoissance of the course of navigation used by whaling vessels in the region of Behring's Straits, and also of such parts of the China Seas, Straits of Gasper, and Jaya Seas, as lie on | the - of vessels to and from China. Thursday, Jan, 22, Mr. Hale moved, and the petition relating to flogvingin the Navy was taken up. He said he was prepared to make his speech now, but at the suggestion of many, he would moye the postponement of the sub- ject. : Mr. Gwin said that if the petition was referred to the Naval Committee, they would bring the subject before the Senate, in a bill, without delay, and then Senators could speak on a direct proposition. After some conversation the petition was so re- ferred, ; Mr. Sumner's resolution of inquiry as to the propriety of abolishing spirit rations and increasing th» monthly pay of enlisted men in the Navy, was taken up and adopted. Mr. Morris offered a resolution, authori- zing a contract with John C. Rives, for the publication of the Senate Debates in the Daily Globe, at $7 50 a column, which was taken up, debated and passed. . Monday, Jan. 26. Mr. Hale presented petitions from citi- zens of New Hampshire, praying for the re- peal of the Fugitive Slaye Law; and also, petitions from the same persons, praying for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, On his motion the petitions were laid on the table. The bill granting land to Towa to aid in the construction of a railroad in that State was taken up, and Mr, Underwood spoke at length against it. : Thursday, Jan. 27. The only noticeable feature of this day's proceedings was a speech by Mr. Sumner in favor of the bill-granting a donation of land to the State of Lowa for the purpose of building a railroad, From the Anti Slavery Reporter, Whe People of Colorin the U. S. The people of color, enslaved and free, in the United States, according to the cen- sus of 1850, amounted to about 3,600.000 ; of these, 8,180,000 were slaves, and 420,000 free people of color. Of the lat- ter, about 234,000 were stated to reside in the slave States ; and 185,000 in the free States, The slaves are said to increase at the rate of 100,000 per annum; but ow- ing to some unexplained cause, the ratio of increase among the free people of color is much less, In reviewing the late census on this point, an intelligent white says: "The comparative increase of the dif- shows that the gain of the whites, for the last. ten years is nearly twenty-eight per cent.; of the slaves, nearly twenty-two per cent.; while the free colored class have in- creased less than nine per cent.; a discre- paney so striking as to be worthy of inyes- tigation, with regard to the cause which excepts that portion of the population from the general law governing the increase of both the black and white races in this country, and which applied to the free colored people, previous to the 'year 1840 as well as to-the whites and slaves." From the best information I ¢ould ob- tain in the States, I have reason to be- ferent classes of the population of the U. S. } lieve, that the number of the free peo-| ple of color in the slave States has not been accurately given ; and that they have really increased in a ratio at least equal to their enslaved brethren. 'There may be policy in concealing their strength, for they are regarded as a most dangerous class, in the midst of the slave popula- tion, but no useful purpose can be an- swered by it in the end. To the num- ber of colored personsin the U. S. may be added the 30,000 refugees in Canada making a grand total of 3,630,000. united together by common sufferings and by common hopes. Though now degraded by inhuman and oppressive Jaws, and subjected to a most «cruel and ungodly prejudice on account of their color and condition, they are gradually advancing in intellisence and power, and are look- ing forward with eager expectation to the advent of freedom, when 'the fetters shall be stricken from their limbs; the avenues to improvement shall be opened to them; and they shall be brought into honorable competition with their white brethren. They are preparing for this happier state of things to a much larger extent than many, not intimately acquainted with them imagine or believe. End ofthe Christiana Cases, We learn from the Lancaster Indepen- dent Whig, that the bills of indictment laid before the Grand Jury of that County, at the recent term of the Court, charging the Christiana prisoners with riot, manslaughter and murder, were allignored. Henry Green Geo. Wells, Geo, Williams, Alson Pernsley, Lewis Gales, Castner Hanway, Elijah Lewis, Joseph Scarlet, Thomas Butler, and Colister Wilson, were only charged for riot. Against each of the following named persons two bills were presented, one charging them with murder in. the first count and man- slaughter in the second, and the. other sim- ply for'riot: John Morgan, William Brown, Jr., George Reed, Wm. Williams, Benjamin Johnston, Isaiah Clarkson, Daniel Cause- berry, Henry, Sims, John Williams, Ezekiel Thompson, John Holliday. Peter. Woods, Wm. Brown, Elijah Clark, Benjamin Pen- dergrates, Nelson Carter, Lewis Clarkson Jacob Moore, Charles Hunter, and John Jackson. { These bills were ignored, not from any disposition on the part of the authorities to shield the accused, still less from any sym- pathy with abolition, but simply because there was no evidence to make even a plaus- ible ease against them. Thus ends the farce! Where is Mr. Ashmead, and where zs Over-: seer Brent? We have called the proceedings of the Government in these cases a farce, and so indeed they are in one point of view; but the faree has been too nvarly tragical in its operation upon some of the prisoners, who haye suffered a great deal both mentally and physically. Weare bound to add, that the Grand Jury, probably from a fear that they might otherwise be thought one-sided, alsoignored the indictment against Kline for perjury, Mystery or raz American Laxes.-- Lake Erie, says the Dublin Magazine, is only sixty or seventy feet deep, but the bottom, of Lake Ontario, which is 452 feet deep, is 230 feet below the level of the ocean, or as low as most parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence ; and the bottom of Lakes Michigan and Superior, aithough their surface is so much higher, are all, from their vast depth, on a Jevel with L. Ontario. Now as the discharge through the River Detroit, after allowing for the full probable portion carried off by evaporation, does not appear by any means equal to the quantity of water the three upper great lakes re- ceive, it has been conjectured that a sub- terranean river may run from 1. Superior to Lake Huron, and from Lake Huron to Lake Ontario. This conjecture is by no means improbable, and will account for the singular fact that salmon and herring are caught in all the Lakes communicating with St, Lawrence, but in no others. As the Falls of Niagara must have always ex- isted, it would puzzle the naturalist to say how these' fish got in the upper lakes with- out some such subterranean river ; more- over, any periodical obstruction of the river would furnish a not improbable solution of the mysterious flux and reflux of the lakes. --Detroit Daily Advertiser. Exerey--Waar ir pors.--We love your upright, energetic men. Pull them this way and then the othér, and they only bend, but never break. 'Trip them down, and in a trice they are on their feet. Bury them in the mud, and in an hour they will be out and bright. They are not ever yawning away existence. or walking about the world as if they had come into it with only half a soul; you cannot keep them down--you cannot destroy them. But for these, the world would soon degenerate; they are the salt of the earth ; who but they start any noble project? 'They build our cities and rear our manufactories. They whiten the ocean with their sails, and blacken the heavens with the'smoke of their steam-vessels and furnace fires. 'They draw their treasures from the mine. They plough the earth. Blessitigs on them! Look to them, young men, and take courage ; imitate their example, catch the spirit of their eneray. Without life, what are you good for, if it is passed idly away ? We should ever measure thus life's employ- ment, ; , AgenUs Report. J. F. Dolbeare, of Michigan, submits the following for the Refugees' Home Society : Alvan Hill, Palmyra - FD Leonard S. Hoxsie, do. - 8p 4G J. H. Comstock, Raisin - "20 Charles Haviland, sen., do. paid - 1 0 William A. Calkins, Palmyra - 2 0 Harvey Smith, Adrian - = De T. H. Bailey, do. - Sty John T Comstock, Rollin, in two annual payments - - 10 George F. Comstock, Rollin, paid - 2 Dee. 1, 1851, Ethel Judd, Jackson's Mill, in six months - e William W. Jackson, do. do. - Isaae Steer, paid - - = 5 Erastus Aldrich, Rollin - - Wm. Rhodes, do. paid - Christopher Russ, Rome ~ = M. T. Stockwell, Dover, in one year Isaac S. Boker, near Cayton, in Sept. S. H. Derrick, Medina, in six months Jan. 9, 1852, Z. Smeth, Raisin, in Oct. J. K. Webb, do. paid $1, do. - Richard Harkness, do. do. - Amos Crane, do. paid = - oe R. L, Aldrich, paid - - David Steer, Raisin,.in six months Doan Mrs. Sarah Smith, do. paid . 5 Abram West, do. in October - D. C. Willits, do. paid - - C. W. Beers, Adrian, in Oct. © - Wm. W. Cook, do. paid - =) J. H. Parker, Rome, Oct. - - W. A. Champenois, do. do. : Bro, Mills, Adrian - : Cary Rogers, do. - : - Austin Crothers, do. in June - Sister Austain, like the widow's or « eoocoooeoocoocooonoosoooeocooooococs oo ROR rN ONY NOMOONNNHNHE KEN HEN OND mite, paid - | - - 0 12 Clark Bebee, Franklin, in one year 2 -0 A. J. Smith, Brooklin, paid =e Ori Moses Rummery, Napoleon, paid 0 50 John MeCoe, Rome, - = Okie Received of B. C. Durfee, Medina, balance on his subscription to the Ree Wand 9 = - - 56 0 Mr. Butler, Ann Arbor Democrat 0 6 CIRCULAR. The undersigned citizens of the State of Michigan, submit to their fellow citizens whosympathize with the anti-slavery cause, the following considerations: . Auti-slayery conventions were once held in the State regularly every year, and to the good influences of those conyentions, much, if not all'of the anti-slavery strength of the State is indebted. At this time it seems to be a simulta- neous conviction with many of the friends of the slave, that the time has arrived when a full and complete revival of anti-slavery strength should be made in the State. The condition of all political parties and churches in the State, presents us with a most propitious period to disseminate light and gain. conquests to this noble work; therefore, to unite its friends and revive its prospects we would most earnestly invite all--both old friends and new, irrespective | of sex or party--who have this cause at heart, and who wish to aid by their presence and influence this great and good work, to meet at the Court-house in Jackson, Jack- son Co., on Wednesday the 25th day of of February next. Anson Backus, Adrian. Wm. J. Wilcox, do. Edwin Comstock, do. Warren Gilbert, Rome. H. J. Parker, do. W. A. Champenois, do. . M. Coe, do. Chester Stodard, do, Clark Beebe, Franklin, James B. Hampton, do. Henry Tripp, do. Wm. H. Ambler, Brooklyn. Stephen Allen, Madison. James B. Wells, Franklin, Stephen Mills. Fitch Reed, Cambridge. . E.B, Fairfield, Spring Arbor. M. Fairfield, 0. L. Wilcox, Jackson. N. Allen, do. R., B. Rexford, Napoleon. A. W. Curtis, Saline. E. M. Case, do, ' Moses Rummery, Napoleon. John Christmas, Saline. 'Henry Decon, -- do. Robert Laird, do. Horace Coy, Northfield. "A. L, Power. Wm. M. Sullivan, Jackson. -- 8. B. Treadwell do. A. L. Power, Oakland. Nathan Power, do. M. Aubrie of Paris has obtained Daguer- reotypes in thirty seconds, with electric light. In two trials he used fluorid of bromine, diluted with nitre. | Kossuth has written elettar of thanks to the ladies of Stockbridge, Mass., for $200 " material aid." The Journal of the Two Sicilies remarks that the state of Vesuvius is such as to threaten an immediate eruption. A resolution for amending the constitu- tion of the United States so as to make Post Masters elected bythe people, has been offered in the House. =