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-- Ne ee eee SANDWICH, CANADA WEST- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1852. Extend the Circulation. 'Any person who will forward to us four dol- Jars, with postage paid, we will send to their order vive copies of the Voice, during the term of one year. peels helnc ely ee Eecfugees' Home Society. Friend Biss, Plense acknowledge the receipt of the following sums in aid of the Refugee's Home Society, Feb. 9, from Rev. C. C. Foote, agent, Naugatuck, Conn - - $250 0 12, Wm. Kowles, of Knowlesville, New York - - - 10 0 » 16, Rev.:A. N. McConoughey, Ober- lin, Ohio - - - - 54 0 H. Hartock, Treasurer, [An error occurred in the last report, which shall be corrected in the next "Voice."--Ep, Colored Schools, &c., in Canada. Tn answer toa few very important questions, asked through the letter of S. R, Ward, which will be seen on another page, we must be brief for want of time. We are asked whether the Refugees' Home Society is not encouraging colored settlements, schools and churches among usin Canada? Also whether there is real need of separate schools and churches, and whether we think it wise to seek to locate the refugees in the extreme western part of the province near Detroit River, rather than settle them back in the interior on Goyernment land, where it is cheaper, &c. Ist. The Refugees' Home Society is encouraging colored settlements in Canada, and making provi- sion also for the education of their children, out of a portion of the money whih they shall pay for the land on which they settle. This, we think, in view of the destitute condition of the newly arrived fugitives from slavery, is the most permanent tem- poral blessing that the friends of humanity can bestow upon them. With regard to the necessity for'colored schools and colored churches in Canada, or any other country where there are white and colored persons living as neighbors, our views are generally known on that subject. Not until we are 'convinced that the Almighty is partial to some of his creatures, and that his partiality is based on the mere color of the skin, will we believe that exdlusive colored churches or colored schools are tight and proper. But in this case it must be re- membered that the fugitives are all colored per- sons in a strange land, without homes or money to buy with, as a general thing. 2d. We do think it both wise and proper to seek to settle ds many of the above class in the extreme western part of the province as possible, for the following reasons + Ist. It is the warmest and mildest part of the Canndian climate. 2d. It is t!e most central crossing point from the®slave states, and on their arrival here they are genérally much wearied by travel, and have not means to carry them back a long distance in the wilderness, where they cannot expect to find friends or lucrative employment as they can near "to Detroit River, where every cord of wood they chop irom their own land will bring them the casu, which makes ©. acres of land worth more to them heré than 100 would be worth 50 miles back in the interior. \ { 8d. Under an anti-slavery government, the nearer We settle to the borders of the slave states, the more sympathy we can extend to our brethren in bonds. We may add, that strangers in a foreign land, no matter of what country or color they may be, experience a greater degree of happiness in being associated with those who may haye come from the same region as themselves. It 1s this feeling ich produces English, Irish, French and Dutch settlements in the States, and we in no wise differ from our white brethren in this respect. It is an easy method of introduction to a new country and does/ not necessarily prohibit friendly intercourse with the older inhabitants, When friend' Ward has duly considered the above points, we think that he will admit the cor- rectnéss of our position, ee ), Progress of Anti-Slavery. The cause of anti-slavery, temperance and reli- gion seems to be making some progress this winter. ; fn Toronto, the Anti-slavery Society have been doing much for the elevation of the refugees in Canada, They have been hol ting public meet- ings, in which the the subject of American slavery has 'been fully aud freely discussed: they have also established a free school in that city, for the refugees from slavery, which, we learn, is well attended. In this section of the province the peo: ple 6f éolor, with but few exceptions, are high- minded, and seem determined to elevate them- selves by becoming landholders, that they may not only be able to produce what they consume, but to edutate and save their children from ignor- anee and want. The temperance cause here is also in a flourishing state. In support of the anti- slavery and temperance cause we have recently held several meetings in this county, amongst our people, which were well attended. STATE OF MAINE, Temperance and anti-slavery are moving on- ward in Maine. We see from the Portland In quirer, that they are holding metings in various parts of the State, We learn that Louis Tappan, Esq, of New York, has visited the State and made a good impression for the cause of humanity. (337 The friends of liberty in Ohio are still calling antislavery meetings and holding up the cause of emancipation. ILLINOIS. This State iz seccuu to none in the Union for its anti-slavery zeal and labor in the cause of free- dom, They keep agents continually in the field agitating the cause. MICHIGAN, We are truly happy to learn that this State is called an State Anti Slavery Convention at Jac son, in this month, and Henry ©. Wright and Walker, are now lecturing through the State on anti-slavery. The temperance cause is also reviving under a recent law they have enacted. We'earn that the rum-sellers held a great meeting in Detroit last week, to put down the law. They spouted, drank whiskey, and resolved, until several got drunk, and broke up in confusion. {a The Free Soilers of Indiana are to hold a State Convention at Indianopolis, on the 27th of February. James G. Birmey. We promised, in our last, to have something more to say about his new position on African colonization; but we haye not yet been fayored with a copy of the pamphlet which he has recently publi-hed, on that subject, for the special benefit of our race, neither have we seen one of our anti- slavery exchanges that have received a copy of this despicable production. We are not able, therefore, to lay the document itself before our readers. We shall still avait its coming before we say more, as we have io means of judging of its real character, only from the ex- tracts from it which we see in the pro slavery colonization papers of the day, which haye been fuvored with the pamphlet. *\c learn, however. that he is opposed to our settling in Canada, be cause the climate is " too cold, and all the best of itis settled by the whites." mistake which Mr. Birney has been led into by pro-slavery colonizationists. ; This is all a gross Cruelty. It lns often been stated that men who hold property in their fellow-men require no Jaw to comp%] them to act humanely towards their unfortunate chattels, seeing that the interest of the slaveholder is ad- vanced by increasing the happiness and contentment f his slaves. This hypothesis appears to be rational,--but facts are de- cidedly opposed to it. Men have the same degree of interest in well tr» ting their domestic animals as they have in attending to the comfort of their slaves ; but notwith- standing this, lawi have b en under the necessity of interfering to protect horses from the brutality of their masters, The fict is, bad men lose sight of their interest when blinded by passion. Is it not singular, seeing that we are ranked with the biute credtion, that there has never been « law passed for our pro- tection ? The following outrage on eighty of our brethren, is the last news we have read regarding the treatment which man receives at the hands of his owner. "A correspondent of the Chillicothe Me- tropolis, reports the steamer Hermon, lying at Guyandotte, Va., frozen in, with eivhty slayes aboard, chained two and two, with a long chain between, similar to the man- ner in which horses are fastened for droving. He says that on one cold night several_of them had their ears and toes frozen. The mate of the boat, Mr. Newton, threatened to raise a company '0 liberate them unless they were placed in more comfortable quarters. The Jong chain was loosed, which allowed them to gather round the stove. 'Their groans from the intense cold are said to have been pitiful. These slaves were bought up at Charleston, Virginia, for the Southern market, and it is stated several hundred of their relatives and friends bade them a last farewell at the shore, as boat left." Aa A Young Wesleyan Student of Theology in England was, not long since. officiating in one of the Wesleyan chapel: in@ small town in England, and as in duty bound to pray for " king and country," he prayed for her Majesty, Prince Albert, and some six or seven childven by name and Was proceeding to some of the dukes, when a plain countryman, tired of his prolixity, lustily called out, "lump um, lump um !" to which a hearty amen was responded by the people. A hint for others who " pray all around the world and back again." [We will add a sketch of a prayer, made by a pro-slavery M.E. clergyman, in Ame- rica, who betrayed himself one sabbath day before his congregation :--" Oh Lord have mercy on the oppressed," but, fearing that it might be thought that he meant the American slaves, he qualified it by saying "the oppressed in spirit." The Lost is Found. No. 2. The reader will remember that this is a continuation of the sad story of James Smith, the fugitive who after the lapse of 17 years had the good fortune to find his bereaved wife in Canada, whom he left a slave in the state of Virginia. Mr. Smith waking up out of a six years' sleep They haye} a aclergyman of the Baptist faith and order, it will be remembered was held nd worked fur many long years in the of Virginia, by a member of the same denomination, who separated him from his wife and little ones and sold him to a slave trader in Georgia. After he was sold to the soul-driver, Mr. White, his former master, in explaining his character to this new master said ; that there " was but one fault to this boy," he was trustworthy, faithful, hard to work &e., but he would tun about at nights and on Sundays trying to preach the gospel amon_st the slave po- pulation, which had a tendency to divert their attention from their work, and made them dissatisfied also, and that he had fre- quently flogged him with arough hide until his back was literally bathed with blood, and yet he'd slip off and do the same thing over again. can soon break him of that practice when I have had him staked down with his face to the ground, and his back striped and checked with the Jash,--with salt and red pepper well rubbed in the gashes, he will give up and forget his religion." Just at this time poor Smith was ordered to get ready his httle bundle of clothing to stait with the chain gang, which was then stand- ing in the road, under the command of a savage driver, On entering: his humble cabin for the last time, to gather up his few garments of old clothing, and then to take leave of his affeciionate wife and two little ones, "Oh! said he, at that moment it' seemed as if my poor heart would break with grief." After pressing his little ones to his breast, he kneeled and commended them to the God of Heaven; but betore these religious exercises were concluded, he was driven from his knees by the stern voice of the driver, who brought the handcuffs and locked them about his wrists. Under this most afflicting trial his wife seemed to bear up with christian fortitude striving to console her husband by pledging herself to ineet him in a a better world than this. But, oh, when the word of command was viven for the coffle gang to move off it was more than this wife and slave mother could bear withoat sobbing. When the parting hand was given, the poor woman burst into tears and wept aloud. This solemn and heart rending scen; can never be described, From thence they were driven to Georgia where poor Smith was placed under an overseer and a cruel driver, on a cotton plantation where there were not less than 300 hands. His quarters were in a small hovel wherein lodwed ten persons including himself; and the rules were strictly against their holding any religious meetings. At leneth Smith ventured to violate this rule, so fur as singing and praying was concern- ed, in his lodging place. Other slaves soon 'became interested in praying and the news was reported to the overseer by the driver, who was ordered to take Smith, and vive him one hundred lashes for violating this plantation law. When he was brought to the vin house to be flogged, he was at ked by the driver why he prayed in the cabin, and if he was let to pass that time without being punished if he would ever pray again ? To which his reply was that he could never pledge himself to refrain from praying, though his life should be taken. For this expression he was most unmercifully "bruised and mangled." The next night he tan away, but was overtaken the day following, with dogs. He was brought back, repunished and put under guard both night and day. (Zo be continued.) For the Voice of the I'ugitive. FROM OUR N. Y. CORRESPONDENT, My dear Fugitive, You have heard, I presume, that the trials in Pennsylvania for treason, so called, have all failed, flatted out, gone by the board, The Jast case was that of Williams, charged, not with treason, but obstructing ihe law by informing the poor fugitive of the hounds' approach, In that case, the vudye at Philadelphia ruled and decided chat to aid a slave to escape from his mas- ter did not violate the law. It was to aid him to escape from arrest, after being in Ah, said the new master ' 1} the hands of the authorities. If persons believed the Marshal to be a kidnapper, and not a United States officer, and opposed him as a kidnapper, they are not subject to the peril of the Fugitive Law. As might be expected, Williams was acquitted. Uncle Sam has lost $60,000 by these trials--the fugitives lost their master--the courts haye lost all their pains, and humanity loses con- fidence in its own capacity for selfgovern- ment where such miserable scenes are allowed to transpire as trials at law for the exercise of pivus and benevolent emotions. 'At Syracuse the boot is on the other leg. The Marshal's deputy, Allen, is on trial for kidnapping Jerry. 'The prosecuting attor- neys are C, B. Sedgwick and Gerrit Smith. Smith on constitutional law in the Empire State will be worth hearing. These things must make Jerry laugh. By the way, they make his name a sort of proverb now, in Syracuse. If any one is known as a true man, itis said, " he knows which way Jerry went." Well, so we go. The feeble rage of sinners may spend itself in attempts at plucking out the stars, or spitting on the sun. Slaveocrats may try to smother the burning volcano with their naked hands ; it must end in their discomfiture. The stars still shine; the sun moves on its glorious course; the pent up volcanic forces of knowledge, truth, justice and love must tind vent, and they are finding vent. The hurricane of Kossuth enthusiasm thats weeps over the land increases the fervor of f:eedom for all, Many persons who are now for the first time waked up to feel some love of liberty, will find the plant grow and strengthen in their hearts. It will erowd out oppression unless it be ent down by violent hands. Last week I was present at a festival given by the trustees of 2d Street Bethel Church, in this city, to the Sabbath Schoul Teachers. Several Daguerreotypes, some of them inelosed in elegant frames, were preseuted, with addresses. The writer made one address; Rey. Mr. Griswold, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, made one, and Dr. Pennington and others also. 'The themes were alike, mainly. My main point, leaving out the fun, was this: Instead of assuming to elevate the colored people, let us get ont of their way, and they will elevate themselves; and so 1 think, and have thought for years ; and so [act always; And now, my fugitive friend, I have at last begun to write for you; I hope ocea- sionally to repeat the pleasant task, in the intervals of a great pressure of business. But I close, by assuring you of an undying sympathy for you, your comrades, and your cause. I hope to see the time yet when our exiled brethren in Canada can return to the land of their fathers,--not to the far off land of their remote ancestry in Africa ; no, | have no sympathy with that selfish, wicked, hypocritical scheme. I mean, hope the time will come when you can come home to see us without fear, when there shall be no slavery to hurt nor to d stroy, in all the mountain country of m native land. : ; Uncie Luervs. Bishop Polk has been elected President of the Louisiana Coloniza_.on Society. The Anti-Liquor Bill has been defeated in the Rhode Island House of Representa- lives. Mury Ellis end Parmelia Pak r have been ane ted at St. Louis, charged with aiding a f male slave to ese-pe. Elder Orson Hyde's paper in Iowa defends the Mormon system of a plurality of wives. The Mormon law allows it, and the Elder deems it no sin, tN Charles Block has recovered $10,000 damages at New Orleans, against the Car- rollton Railroad Company, for breaking voth legs of his son. The friends of the Illinois Central Rail- road say it will be proceeded with, what- ever may be the result of Mr. Walker's ne- votiations in England, Free Neorors Conyrerey ar Garyes- ron.--\Ve learn from the Galveston Jour- nal, that four free negroes of. the crew of the brig Billow, of Boston, have been con- vict-d, in the District Court in Galveston, of concealing on board that vessel 4 runa- way male negro slave, with intent to pre- vent his return to his owner. The penalty for the offence is a fine equal to the value of the slave, and it was adjudged that, un- less the prisoners pay this, they, in accord- ance with th: law, will be sold at the ex- piration of fifteen days to the highest bidder. Tus Power oF Catm Detivery.--A celebrated divine, who was remarkable in the -tirst period of his ministry for a bois- terous mode of preaching suddenly changed his whole manner in the pulpit, and adapt- eda mild and dispassioned mode of delivery. Oue of his brethren observing it, inquired of him what had induced him to make the change. He answered when, " I was young I thought it was the thunder that killed the people ; but when | grew wiser, I dis- covered that it was the lightning; so I determined to thunder less, and lighten more." For the Voice of the Fugitive. Report from Charles C. Foote, AGENT OF THE R, H. 8. The following are my receipts in Conn., for the Refugees' Home Society : MeEripen. G. W. Perkins - - > $ 0 Walter Webb and Co. - = ee) Curtis L. North and mother > OV oy J.C. Miller - - oe Be Julius Ives - - =v Be O E. Hubbard - - ei 1) BE. J. Collins = - - <a LH. Curtiss - = ares H. Curtiss and E. Rice - get J.T. Aand 8. Morgon - - 20 GC. A. Hotchkiss - <eeeO S. Webb and J.S - 6 .o N. A. Lindley - * = SRD 8. D. Cook and E, Comp = ee H. I. Wilcox and E. Pratt a1 i 2 $. Curtiss and A. C.B se) T. and S. Meriam and Co. - 4 °0 A, Snow and A. Foster - cee Mrs. Josiah Bissel and Co. seR) 0 Mrs. Cowls - - +2 bet John Yale - i - 12 0 W. and H. Rice and Co, - -' 38 50 H. 11. Catlin - - ae ea W. Booth - - = 6. 0 QO. Swan - - a eae A. A. Stevens and Co. - - 8 0 F. Bush " - #156..0 S. Clark - - Fist Suc H.B.Spery = - - aint Sheet J. Hubbard - - - 2.0 J.and 8. Bole - - = 850 A.B. Wood -- - - - 4 56 3 38 oo ©.H. Plate and J. E. North . New Buirron. /N. Harts and J. Parker. - Hitec! 5 0 \ James Stonley - - = 05) AD A. T.and J. StanleyandCo. - 9 0 .M. Judd and B. F. Pierce = Oey A. E. Dudley - - <P Dy Messrs. Judds and Lee - a, OREO Canton CENTRE. Rev. J. Burt and wife - torear rat) Meeting - - - 2650 Collingsville -- - - - 13 73 F ARRINGFORD, Milo Burr - - - 10 0 B. N. Baker - - Seen ds N. Roberts - - eres a Meeting - - =~ i 3D0 Woolcotville -- - - = ao: WarwtncTon. ; Messrs. Ca:lin and Wolson =i: (ihe, Jason Skinner - - = 5. (Gi Meeting - - mee Farmineton. John N. Norton - - 10 0 A. F. Williams - - - 0 T. Cowts and W. D. Louis - 56 Ifenry Luis - - - 56 Messrs. Frost and Skinner - wokaawnwwyad o J.R. Smith and D. Buck and Co. - 0 S. 8. Cowls and Co. - - 25 Mrs. Tappan Luis, &e. - - 53 I. S.and 8. Hart and Co. - 41 C. Rowe and Co. - - 0 PLAINVILLE. William Cowls - - = br 0 Others - - - - 14 95 Bristol - - - - 4650 Puiymoourn. Ferrand Dunbar - ap Ou AU, S. Allen and W. W. Bull and Co. 3 0 Capt. Dunow and Co. - ian aif PiymoutH Hottow. L. F. Comstock and Co. = heal ib S. Thomas and D. S. Coble - 6 0 Homan Frest and Co, - oe oO) WATERTOWN. Messrs. Everett and Davis - 5 0 Messrs. Partree and Hotchkiss - 65 0 J.D. Forest = - - ae Dl ot R. M. Tech and D. Mattoun 2B Mr. Atwood and Partrer - - 3 0 D. Woodward - - Sg) O WATERBURY. A. Benedict - - - 5 ..0 M. Rodman and 8. Scoville - 4 50 J. Hotchkiss and W. Carter "to Ba Scorrett and Hall and N. Hall d& Co. 6 0 Bergen and vicinity, N.Y. = 14592 (perhaps already reported.) &@- Forty-one thousand immigrants landed in Canada during the past year, and of this number upward of twenty-two thou- sand were Irish, Freep ann Escarsp Staves.--We find in a Southern paper the following table, compiled from official sources, exhibiting the number of slaves who were manumitted or escaped from the Southren States, during: the year ending June Ist, 1851: States, Fug's. Manv. Delaware . ; lo 174 Maryland . te ie a 333 Virginia. , . 89 21 North Carolina . Toe 2 South Carolina . < de 2 Georgia . : rer oa 30 Florida. . =) ae) 22 Alabama . f . 32 14 Mississippi 6 - 49 ll Louisiana . ; PP ae «96 Texas s : . 338 5 Kentucky . . 143 164 Tennessee . " ajao & Missouri. ; . 59 54 Arkansas . on 6 Dist. of Columbi SOR 6 -- --__ Total : 10F8 13814