of ARRAN RRO ees PROVINCIAL FiakEMAN. CHATHAM, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1897. - NAD PRP eee er Mr. William Still, of Philadelphia P. A. fe authorized to receive subscriptions for this maper, and give Receipts fur the same. be" Mr. Isaac N. Cary, Front street Toronto @ autherized to act as agent for this paper. Ee Mr. B. Bowser, Muscatine, Iowa, is an authorized agent of this paper. oe EBPEGIAL NUTICES. == SUBSCRIBERS, EDITORS, POSTMAST- ERS. and TEACHERS, are invited to obtain subscriberstothe PROVINCIAL FREEMAN, ter which twenty per cent will be allowed. No papers will be sent until the cash is received. : The terms of the Freeman are payment in advance, and no paper will be sent longer than paid for. : - Specimen numbers.will be sent gratis upon application. Appress I. D. SHADD, Chatham, C. W. 22 eS REMITTANCES. _All subscription monies: for this journal enclosed in lettersand duly registered,-- After leaving Elmira, we journeyed on to Canton, where we made two appointments one for Sabbath afternoon.-in the Church of the Disciples ; here we were honored by a large and intelligent audience, who mani- fested great interest. in the cause 'of the slave and those who have escaped into a land of treedom. The meeting was opened by prayer by Mr. Townsend, and a choir discoursed some Anti-Slavery musie ,with great proficiency, effect and feeling. Here we found good friends, among whom were Messrs. Rockwell and Townsend, whose kind treatment we shall long remember.-- Next in place is Williamsport, Pa., bearing the reputation of being the meanest town in the state, a character verified by our expe- rience.. On applying for the Court House for an Anti-Slavery lecture the Dutch demo- crat who had the letting of it,abruptly replied "you, kant hav it!" and'not one ehurch in town could be obtained ; so we posted our bills for a street meeting in front of the Court House, for the same evening ; at the time many assembled, but were compelled to retreat tu the store, as the rain fell in torrents ; it was as well, perhaps, as from report we anticipated a present of rot- ten egys and bricks. Travelling on we ar- rived at Reading Pa., and held two meetings one ir. Keystone Hali, the otner in the Col- ored Presbyterian Church; both of these meetings were well attended, but we got | _PROVINCIAL-FREEMAN O surely want them. If they would show how todo duty on earth,properly as well as what to do in heaten, their labors would be appreciable; but at present, they, stand as leeches to the colored comunities and peo- ple, great sponges, absorbing our very vital- ty. Wehave found in differnt ptaces that these great tutors or oracles of religion ave taneht their congegations until they believe 'their Churches to holy to preaeh _against political evils, and among the Afri- can Methodist Episcopals it is seldom a church*can be had for Anti-Slavery lec- tures. It is a foul pro-slavery christianity, but suchis religion in some of the colored churches.--1. pb. 8. £@ Tue Union Baptists, anp THe Ist Cotorsp Baptists or Cuatucm.=We beg attention to the letter from the officers of the Union Baptist Church to be found in the present number of the "Freeman." The offending parties is the Ist Colored Baptist Congregation, Eider Piper's,. and if what we learn be true, there must be cause for cenxure of the latter. It is no small mat- ter to read a denominaticn out of existence without their conseut, but it is exeeedingly wrong, it is adding insult to injury to repre sent them as consenting to their own disolu- tion with out their knowledge--m. a. s. ©. (> The Committee consisting of M, F. Baily C. Chanty J. Snyder 3B, Bell, ard J. C. Brown, purporting to be appointed by the First Colored Baptist Cnurch, to vindi- which can be done at any Post Office on payment of two cents in addition to the post- age--are at the risk of the Publisher. Sub- ecribers will oblixe us and relieve us from many difficulties by forwarding their sub- scription money by mail, as the trouble and expense of collectiong through the country ® Very great.--I. D. 8. bu: few names. In this place as in others cate Elder Piper in begging, and to trump through which we passed in Pennsylvania, we found the colored people attending to but the one thing, Religion, the absorbing topic among us. The order of church ex- ercises is pretty much the same in all.-- Brother , preachcs Sunday and Sun- day night ; trustee meeting Monday night; | Brother F 's class meets Tuesday night; prayer meeting Wednesday night ; strange brother preaches Thursday night; Bro- ther H 's class Friday night, and trial of members Saturday night. Thus ends the week, but preaching again Sunday &e. After leaving Reading Mr. Douglass spoke in the Baptist Church, Norristown, to a large audience; here the interest mani- fested by the colored people was small. On the fourth of July we arrived in Philadel- phia, and have since had three interesting meetings in the Sniloh Baptist Church, at- Last but not least comes Wilmington, Del., where we had two large meetings ; a lively interest prevailed throughout. refugees, and d:shonesty general-y, avainst the managers of the Freeman, and who gave Christian Messe nger, of Brantford--sig- nally failed to sustain their position before too meetings du ing the past week. Their movements shall have attention in due time. BILLS! BILLS!! BILLS!!! We have sent a large number of bills, to Bubscribers and hope they will remitt to us at the earliest possible moment, as our sub- scriptions are our only dependence. --M. A. &. Cc. fa An interesting letter from onr co- adjutor Mr. H. F Douglass, too late for this is sue will appear in the next. OUT CANVASSING. ( It will be seen. by an extract from the Planet of Wednesday that we have been visited by slave catchers, Their dismissa! was summary as they justly deserved. Messrs. I. D. Shadd & H. F. Douglass. both of this office, will visit many of the tewns and cities in Western and Eastern Canada, immediately, for the purpose of pro- moting the interest and prospects of this pa-. per. and the cause of humanity generally. Mr. Shadd will act as canvasser &c., while Mr. Douglass, who has just returned from a tour in the.Western states, where he has Joy to the Invalid.--Persons afflicted wish any of the diseases arising from a dis: rder- ed liver or stomach, nervous debility, dys- pepsia or liver complaint, should try Perry Davis' Vegetable Pain Killer. It seldom fails to effecta cure in a short time. Sold by tended by large audiences. When we look at the progressive tenden- druggists generally. cy of the Amcrican people, their great thirst spoken with great acceptance, will Lecture RE None except those who have suffered all the miseries of Dyspepsia in its various forms can appreciate the value of a medi. To ail who extensively as well as canvass, and we know |for literature, the number of papers, well eatistactorily. Both are young men, and are | Sustained by them and the thousands of volumes of: publications of various kinds coming daily into circulation, and reflect how few of all these valuable books and papers are read by colored people, we become al- most discouraged. cine that will cure this disease. would find a remedy, we say try the Oxy- | genated Bitters. tabouring, in the cause of human ri, hts, and fer'the spread of intelligence among Canadi- ya refugees. We hope the Liberty-loving people of With a few honorable exceptions the people seem not to appreci ate the value of a paper, and have not the slig test idea of the responsibility attached to the publication of one. Many a man subscribes thinking that thereby he confers a favor, or from sympathy for the publishers and if he takes it for one year, he feels: that we can never make a demand of him again If we can once get our people to see hov little they do know and how important it i to learn all they can, we will have accom plished a great work ; then they will read q paper as well-as subscribe for it, when the do subscribe. The fact, that the Perss is with intelligent mena means by which te these Provinces and the States will give them GQorres pow pence. aid: in their work.--wm. a. s. c. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE: NO. 2. Oar time, since our Jast communication, thas been very unprofitably spent. In truth, in cousequence of dull times, this has been the most discouragige of all eanvasses we have made. After leaving home, we experienced anceasing wet weather for twenty-nine days, which was a great obstacle. inthe way of meetings: On the 16th of June, we ar- rived at Medina, Orleans County, N. ¥., and were very hospitably entertained by Mr, Richard. Gardaer... We made applieasion for the Methodist Episeopal Chureh which was Willingly granted, atid were successful "jn getting outa 'fine audience, but. unforta- nately for us and:the ladies, the rain. cem- menced falligg again, asd in torrents, and continued during the night. - This seemed to kill the interest in the meeting, and the nu vber of names attached to our list was few, however, an eminently literary lady, offered her service in getting up a club.-- Mr. Gardiner promised us a club also, so we started for Millville, where a meeting was appointed for Sunday, at which time a large audience attended, whe seemed more than pleased with Mr. Douglass' powerful effort. These towns are small but are located in a vich agricultnra] district, possessing superior water facilities. ihis country is not only remarkable for its high state of cultivation, but for the many noble hearted people dwell- jng therein. Our next place of meeting was Elmira, where we were allowed the use of the Congregational Church (white) also the A.M, E. Church (colored) but from some wrong arrangement or as some supposed de- sign on the part of the sexton (colored) the large number of persons who eame were eompelled to-ieave in consequence of the house not being open at the hour appointed, thereby causing a failure. The colored friends turned out at their church, at th: ' very usual, but late hour of 9 o'clock, evening, and few in number. dispel. immorality and vice, and to promote good morals ,and knowledge, which is pow- er, throughout the land,seems to have been lost to our light, and are, approved of, by' honest white ' friends where we have been, some of whom had never seen the paper, while many colo- red friends who have taken it, on see- ing us, did not know that there were any such parties by name,even one person said he had taken it three years and thought it was the Voice of the Fugitive. I know Our efforts have been, these truths will not be palatable to some ~to those who would rather the truth should not be told of the culpable negligence, among us as a people, from fear that they will be identified, but the truth must be told!: In our opinion what we most need, is fewer Meeting Houses, and more School Houses--fewer Preachers and more Teach ers, and importance to Agriculture and Mechanieal branches, and wealth and re- spect will inevitably follow. Who are the men thal the mass of the eolored men and women are governed by, and what are their standard of intelligence 2? The Colored Clergy? Men who say that Gud has cal- led them, to show wa the way to heaven! now we would like to know wheth- er Godin his wisdom, has called men te explain the scriptures many of whom can :ot read, and consequently do not under- stand trem? We do not believe that God appoints any such missionists, and we do not} up the false charges, of begging for the | currant to the false statement throuzh the | O é€ frovincial Freeman. Men of whom we might say with the he poet, "they are born for the universe, and narrow in their minds, and to party give gup what was meant for mankind." Right and justice which are unalterable in the decree of God's Holy will, has been restrained by some individuals here abouts, agonism, pouring forth flames and fiery cin- ers of red hot lava, destroying and blast ng everything that comes within thietwr terii- ble sweep. 'This storm seems almost _irre- sistible because wrongs have justly been exposed and condemned by this paper in carrying out the original priaciples for which it was established in opposition to the evils And one of the greatest wrongs which has been that surroun? us from time to time. held up to public scorn, is the begging for efugees in Canada, which system has had its justifiers directly or indirectly in this ountry, by a few colored men and. one of he opposite complexion at the head, under he garb of religion, which is false and treacherous to the pure doctrine of :he di- vine writ, and in opposition to all efforts that may be put forth for the general good. The colored people in these Provinces never sanctioned any such a scheme; this system in our opinion is unnecessary ; old clothes from the Un-ted States with us is fostering indulence and is at the expense of our feel- ings an imposition too outrageous to bear, and is promising the damnation of the col- ored people in this country, that knows no difference in its po:idcal formation of Gov- erpment,.and being inhabitants and subjects of Her Majesty's dow ain in respect and jus- tice to tne charity of the whites amongst whom we live we should repulse the begg- ing from the United States, and provide for its overthrow; because it is a lamentable fact in the opinions of some whites tiat as a people we are incapable of taking care of ourselves. This has been felt in the United States and Canada, and this mcnster lurks in the midnight hour, stealing along, degrad- ing us, giving sanction to that doctrine ot the pro-slavery and colonization parties that laims we can't live on the continent of m future. and have rafsed in their mivhty rage of an--- JDVERTISER. shores of Africa to suffer the fate of a hot embrace beneath an equatorial sun, an un- timely warning of an early death... This 1 detest and ever will; it has no harb.t in my heart; its perpetration is wrong. I know that there are angry. spirits and turbulent muters of stifled veugeancé against me, who lurk in narrow places and walk out muffled to whisper curses In tne night. But my po- The God of right and justice lives now as in furmer times, and we find in History those assassins who dipp- sition is unchangeable. vive sanction to the deed, the Divine Power after losing the batide of Philippi, killed imself with. the same dagger which he had omen that his days were few, and in the mighty struggle against his fellow-men his rock where he presented the deathly sword to his breast and died upon the spot. And all ill-doers in these times must share the same judgment pronounced against them : no slander; no theft; no assault upon the sa- cred image of God in upright form; no wrongs of any kind can be justly founded upon Christian fame. And to destruy this mighty element that is swallowing up the few who are laboring for the general good, is torenew the cause of education. The winds and waves, capricious ever as when they first beat upon the ancient Silu- rian rock, but press onward, "Against the winds, against the tide, Now steady, on with upright zeal. And we read in history of the illustrious Bacon, whose name still shines -with star-like brightness from that di-tant night, says "knowlvdge is power." Without knowledve there Is no sure progress. Vice and barba- rianism are the unseparable companions of ignorance. 'The polished Britain whose civilization and refinement we admire is one of the descendants of those barbarians whose degradatiun lives in the records of him, the Roman conqueror who bore on the rapacious legions and invaded her ver- dant shores. -- But -the Britains could not pe stayed there ; their continual struggles: has immortalized their names in the History of ever more. Slowly they advanced to the position they occupy, and the improvements of the past are earnest improevments of the Let us follow the example and test the benefit that "knowledga is power " here And like Athens looked upon the evening sun and her temples famed in the setting beams, and the clouds of the Mivean sea rolled around ber verdant is- in Canada. lands and sported in the azure vaults of Heaven, or like scattered stars beaming on the pages of classic lore, pouring forth a meridian spléndor on mcdern Itterature. OspOrn ANDERSON. _ Chatham, July 29th, 1857. <> May 1lith, 1857. The Union Baptist Church of. Chatham, C. W., ata Regular meeting held at the house of our Reverend brother H. Stafford, on Saturday evening, May 3d, all the dea- cons being present, the Church was called to order by Rev. brother [H..Stafford. Bro- ther A. Siddles was called t> the Chair ; Brother W. G. Price acted Clerk. It was moved and carried unanimously, that the Clerk draw up.adocument in be- half of the Union Baptist Chu:ch, for pub- lication, and the same be sent te the differ- ent Religious papers for insertion. Resolved, that we the Union Baptist Church, of Chatham, C. W., are determined to stand up to our present organization. We | have been ordained a Church in Gospel or- der, by legal elders, Culver, of Detroit, as- sisted Elder Camil, of Chatham, and there- by convinced that our standing asa Cbris- tian church is lawfull, although it has been published that we are no eburch, and we can't see for our lives how those who have taken themselves from us without our con- sent, and- without their letters, and unite themselves to another body, can publish us as no Church, but that we leave it to the consideration of the religious public, as we don't intend:to make strife, God fordid, but we are determined to claim our rights asa Christian church, no matter whose hand it is in. -We have interfered with no body, and we are in hopes that every Christian can see ; but. we are resolved as_a Gospel church set apart, as has been above men- tioned, to publish to the world our fixed de- termination, seeing we have all the privilege as we have stood firm upon the foundation where we was first fixed. May God grant us grace so to do. By order in behalf of the Church. W.G. Prics, Church Clerk. A. SIppELs, PuirasanT Kipp, Deacons. THE SHORTEST PASSAGE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC MADE BY A CANADIAN STEAM- er.--The " America" arrived at Quebec on Sunday, making a passage of about eleven days. She brings news, of the arrival of the "Indian" at Liverpool, aftera passage of nine days and.eleven hours, being the short- ast passage West-Ward yet made by any ed their hands in the bivod of Ceasar or hunted them over sea and land. Cassius nade use of against Caesar. Brutus while laying On his couch in the silent hour of the night, saw a spectre come forth, as an. fate was sealed. He retired to the top of a SLAVE CATCHERS aT CHATHAM '& y Pee b moutheners, viz;--Joha ells, Lynchburg, Va, and T.G Jam Nashville, Tennassee. as written Upon re Hotel register book, arrived at Chatham, a i put up at Mr. Pritchard's Royal Exchage The object. ot the visit of these personnnee was to.recover the body of a 'smart color r lad, named 'Joseph Alexander, « ne seph sAle: r, "aged about 20. As soon as this faét became known g large party of eolored persons, amonsst whom was the identical Joe, well dressed from top to toe, assembied in front of the Hotel, but nothing disorderly occurred, Tn conversation with Mr. James, who professed to own the boy, we were toid that "Joe" es- eaged from hin to Canada sometime in May last--that he was a "good boy? b ¢ alinost too "big a.id Sacuy," Tic rane. toid us that be had 'never whipped Joe? eh once and then because be got dronk, and impudent, and allowed@a" span &fthorsés to run away, and break a Carria-e all to smash when,..said..Jdames, "I. did.take. a~strap-and whip him right smart, that I did, now that's a fact; but t?was nothing more than he de- served, because "Joe? got dissatisfied, and I presumed he'd leave me. Joe recognized bis old master, who is-4 regular Southerner, 'of lean and hungry look,, and asked him quizzingly, when he was goitig' to leave Chatham.' James told him 'at 'noon? Joe said, "I'll be at the Depot, . ana go wih you; 'but iterated the dealer in human flesh, 'he won't; he lies; I knowd--m well' he wont' meet me, he has been to Canada once' before; and wout' leave it again with fhe risk of being nabbed a second time. No, Joe's too sharp for that."--So thought we. Joe no doubt knows on which side bis bread is butterered. We have learned that James. is Welfs; uncle, and that both are extensive slave-deal- e:s in N. Crieans, their 'pen' being in the rear of the famous St. Charles Hotel. 'The firm of James & Co., is said to be worth upwards of 3,000,000, and the 'pen' is one of the largest in the Union, containing for sale on an average about 500 negroes, good, bad and indifferent. Agents of James, for the buying of slaves, are employed is all the Southern States. Before leaving Chatham. James offered 'Joe, $100 if be would goe down to Windsor; but the latter informs us that he bad rather not be in the old man's® company, especially out of a crowd; for, says ; Joe, 'I am positive from what I know of bin that as suon as he got me out be would shoot me dead, and then leave me, for he woukd Jest as soon shoot'a man as a black-sqvirrek» and a white man ae a black mans > and bis Hepbew a> justJise him. 'This beme thease we don't blame Joe much for not zomg -- Planet. ufterwards a DO Oe The New York. Herald thinks thats it would be disastrous to tbe c.u-e of eiviliza- tion, to have the British defeated in India. Our contemporary argues that in many re- spects such a defeat wou'd prove injurious to the United States, and adds, that were proper means taken, the active sympathy of | the latter country could be secured in favor of Great Britain. The proper means alluded to by the Hera/d are. that "England shou'd cede the entire contro} of this coulinent and us dependeneves to the Uniied States." And, if this were done, all the English would gain: in return, according to the Lerald, would be the privilege - of enlisting soldiers in the United States: The British will not require. such aid,and the /Zerald can scarcely be serious in offering it. If the United States can keep the Mormons and Indians in proper®* order, to say nothing of Plig-Ugties, Dead Raboiis, and other, internal enemies, will be quiieas muchias they can. do for some time.-- Colonist. 2 The New York Hearld says that the English are in advance of the French in the now scheme for supplying the West Indies: with negro labor and that Palmerston Js _abead of Louis Napolean in the © buiness: The H-arld makes this statement on the . authority of a letter from Port Spain; Tsland ™ of Vrinidad, in which tt is stated that two ship loads of negroes had arrived there. On the strength of this the Herald cries: out that Great Britain bas commenced the. slave trade. Bnt in pomt of fact the negroes, al- Juded. to.are Portuguese African emigrants, who have of their own free will gone to the Jshind of Trindad toserve a ¥oiuntary ap preaticeship of ten years. eke Miles,'slave *to« Mrs. Ehza~ Prinnell; 'of Dorehouse Parish, La., has: been sentenced to be hung, for resisting and dangereusly wounding Jerome Bres, who was attempt- ing to capture him as a runaway , Rar We are informed by Capt. Lap- pan, that the Jslander will, on Monday next re-commenee her trips between Chatham and Detroit and continue them during the season with her accustomed regularity.-- Planet. MaxsxiLies July 12. The news from Bombay is to the 11th of June. An action had been fought between Delhi and Meerut; the insurgents had 7,000 men and the British troops and Sepoys 1,800. After haying been defeated with the loss of twenty-six guns. the insurgents re-entered Delhi in disorder. At the date of the last advices the English occupied the height round Delhi, and were preparing to attack it by assault. Nevertheless, desertions continued, and the whole north-west of India was open to the disaffected. Thirty thousand native troops had quitted their colours since the commence ment of the insurrection. General Anson had died of cholera. The Vectis is preparing to sat! from Mar- seilles. . She has just reeiveed orders from England to await the arrival of Sir. Colia' Canpbell, the new General-in-Chief, on lus America, we must be expatriated tothe steamer. Hurrah for Canada.-- Mail. | way to India, a RRS Sopa e : : 2s ees "4 s we . ee mS oe : : -- eco ec pd Se ee ee He ae so WE js ee - wcaendan et Sat SS, we teor Bar Readies Stree gam Se 1c PF PCE eee ads se J Pee =e : i a = SEE : ¢ : Ph awe! Bag ' Sgce : MME yy tae ee i iB ses Bho : : PAN Sages oS are re ! Eke ds!