Ser ) j 1 pie HENRY BIBB, EDITOR. "" SANDWICH, 'C. W., APRIL 9, 18 ------) le ol, VOL. I. NO, 8, ait oa. : 5 VOICE OF THE FUGITIVE. Z 18 PUBLISHED EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAY, AT SANDWICH CANADA WEST. oa EES SS LLAR palw id oN Fae Trail pa received fore feng teed than six munths. Advertisements, not excecding fen lines, inserted £ 'four times for one dollar, Every subsequent insertion twenty five cents. . DABOR, burt F ine BY FRANCES 8. OSGOOD. 'Pause not to dream of the future before us ; Pause not to weep the wild cares that come 0'er us; Hark, how Creation's deep musical chorus, Unintermitting, goes up into heaven! Never the ocean-wave falters in flowing ; Never the little seed stops in its growing ; More and more richly the rose-heart keeps glowing Till from its nourishing stetn it is riven, "Labor is worship ?"'--the robin is singing t «"Jaboris worship !--the wild bee isringing; Listen! that eloquent whisper upspringing Speaks to thy soul from out nature's great heart, From the dark cloud flows the life-giving shower; From the rough sod blows the soft-breathing3 ing flower ; From the small insect, the rich coral bower; Only man, in the plan, shrinks from his part. Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth Flowers droop and die in the stillness of noon, Labor is glory !--the flying cloud lightens ; Only the waving wing changes and brightens; Idle hearts only the dark future frightens ; Play the swect keys, wouldst thou keep them 3 in tune ! ' Laboris rest--from the sorrows that greet us, Rest from all petty vexations that meet us, Restfrom sin promplings that ever entreat us; Rest from world-syrens that lure us to ill, Work--and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pil- : low: , 'Work--thou shalt ride over care's coming bil- low; je not down weuaried 'neath Woe's weeping wil- low ; Work witha stout heart and resolute will! Labor ishealth! Lo! the husbandman reaping, through his veins goes fhe life current leap- . ing ! i How his strong arm, in its stalwart pride sweep- ing, ; True as a sunbeam the swift sickle guides, Labor is wealth---in the sea the peurl groweth; Rich the queen's robe from the frail cocoon flow. eth 5 ; rom the fine acorn the strong forest bloweth; Temple and statue the marble biock hides. Drop not, tho' shame, sin, and anguish are round "thee! ~Bravely tling off the cold chain that hath bound thee, Look'to yon pure heaven smiling beyond thee ; Rest not content in thy darkness--a cloud ! Work---lo= some good, be it ever so slowly ; Cherish some flower, be it ever s0 lowly ; 'Labor !---all labor is noble and holy ; Letthy great deeds be thy prayertothyGod. From the New York Tribune. "THE BLACKS AND EQUAL RIGHTS-- COLONIZATION, &C. To the Editor of the Tribune: My attention is called to a point or two "in your late article in reply to "Justice." You conclude that further effort for our elevation in this Republic, both on the part of -ourselves and our friends and ourselves, is hopeléss. 'That in respect tolls, so far from abolishing unjust and abhorrent laws, now existing, '*'l'he ten- dency is strongly and obviously the other way." Andat these grave conclusions you arrive from consideration of the facts stated by you, that * nearly every state which has revised its constitution within the last twenty years, has made it more equal and truly democratic 'in regard to hites, and at the same time, less so in elation to Blacks." These facts are important. If it be in- deed true that in a plain matter of right and wrong between man and man, tho' one be a' Whjte and the other a Black, the tendency Ts to cast down the scales of Justice and substitute wrong for right, what comfort can any true-hearted Amer- ican take in the thought? If, where Liberty and Oppression are brought into fair conflict, even in this 'Home of the Brave and Land of the Free," Oppres- sioh triumphs and Liberty flees, then has the decay of our Government begun al- ready, and this is the fearful handwriting on the wall. Well may our princely Merchants, scheming Politicians, and haughty Rulers be agitated, for we are Weighed and found wanting. But, Sir, I cannot fall to this sad 'con- clusion while there appears to me a more plausible, truthful gud agreeable way of accounting for the apparently retrogade movement. Your ficts stand or stalk well, but your conclusions are lame and impotent. You will remember that there have been two great Abolition movements in our country--the last having arisen with- inthe, time stated. 'he old abolition Society was composed of philosophers, speculators and slaveholders, Washing- ton himself being one of them. The new consists of earuest Reformers, plain or even obscure men,but the consistent and unflinching heralds of impartial and' uni- versal Liberty. Garrison stands in the front rank. 'The former caught at a frigid theory, planned for the distant future, and appropriated means with the same dignity and spirit that our legislators set to work to improve a harbor, regulate financés; or locate a mint. The latter pushes a principle home to the heart and conscience, lifting up its voice against Oppression and the Oppressor, insisting that the American people ought to * Act, act in the living present, Heart within and God o'erhead." By these last our case has been set forth as it never was before. 'The slave- ocrat is met pointedly with a "'Vhou art the man!" So his apologist: So he who, blinded with prejudice and maligni- ty, presumes to scoff at and override his black brother. 'The proud, the vain and the mighty have been aroused. We are in the midst of the clangor of new and warring issues. The battle is not yet de- cided, and whichever way at present vic- tory seems tending, Truth' and Right have nothing to fear in the final result. Beside, sir, the manner of testing the sense of the People in the States men- tioned did not favor us, Our cause,weak enough at the best, has been subjected to unustal difficulties by designing men, as in the case of Connecticut, where ' Ne- gro Suffrage" was submitted as a sepa- rate proposition,and of course went down. But, after all, the' most that such' facts show is, that we have many friends, more enemies, and that the great mass of the whites are indifferent about, or too busy to attend to us. It is the "' manifest destiny' of the blacks to abide in their own native land, and work out the problem of the unity of the Human, Family. We have borne the worst already and are not crushed-- thank God! For my part, have as much expectation of séeing the Alleghanies plucked up and planted in the Mediter- ranean, as that even the free blacks will ever be removed to the Coast of Africa. Other points present themselves, but | know your rule as to the length of com- munications, and beside, I would not as- sume the quarrel of another. T am now, sir, in your hafds ; deal not with the Negro, but with the-Man; lead me not aside with sophistries concerning Races, but with arguments on Human Rights ; and I hope to commend myself to your respect and the respect of all my White countrymen by manifesting a dis- position to "buy the truth and sell jt not." SESOSTRIS. TREMENDOUS EXCITEMENT IN NEW BEDFORD. COLORED POPULATION WIDE AWAKE!! New Beprorp, March 16. Our city has been in the most intense state of excitement ever since half-past four o'clgck this morning, in consquence of the avvan here about that time of two gentlemen from Boston, who left that city about midnight, making the journey (60 miles) in four and a half hours--30 miles by horse and 30 miles by railroad --bringing the intelligence that a steam- er with 100 armed men and the Deputy United States Marshal left Charleston Navy Yard on Saturday evening, bound for this or some other port in the yicini- ty, with tHemmepived intention of claiming Fugitive Slaves. The information was communicated to some of the principal men of the place, at the earliest moment. The bell on Liberty Hall was immedi- ately tolled and continued to sound the alarm for about one hour. The people turned out to see what was the matter-- the news was soon upon every tongue. A large concourse of people assembled at Liberty Hall and resolved upon future course. Between six and reven hundred colored citizens, many of whom are fu- gitives, are here, and are determined to stand by one anothér, and live or die to- gether. The colored citizens abandoned 'spring. their separate places of worship and as- sembled in a body at. Liberty Hall; this was done at the recommendation of Sev- eral of our most wealthy and influential citizens, At the opening of the meeting in the forenoon, Rodney French, Esq., an- nounced, that, what the citizens of New Bedford had been in great fear of for some time past, had now almost become a fact, no longer ago than yesterday, said he, a U. S. Deputy Marshal for New Bedford received his appointment in Boston, he purchased it by a pledge that he could and would artest a fugitive slave in this city, if it cost him his life. j Mr. French told the audience the nei about the steamer; the excitement was very great.. The impression here is that the steamer is intended to remain in the outer bay, to be used by the new Depu- ty Marshal, who is a pilot, as a sort of prison ship, there being no other means of holding a prisoner. The name of the new officer is Bill Russell, said to be a and reading rooms have been visited by hundreds, during the day, who are very anxious to learn something of the partic- ulars, ; All good citizens, without reference to party, declare that a fugitive ought not and never can be taken from this place. The new Deputy finds it difficult to' ob- tain the necessary bonds required by law before he can hold the office;' ney- ertheless he is appointed.. He does not deny that the steamer was intended for this port, but is ashamed to own that he has received the appointment.: Such a severe storm has been raging all day, that it would be impossible for the steamer to have arrived up to the clo- sing of this despatch. A monster meeting is talked of for this evening notwithstanding the rain:--Com- monwealth. ij | _ AGRICTLTURE. FARM WORK FOR MARCH. The winter' months are gone and the tween winter 4nd summer, and that is 'It offen lingers inthe lap of May," but farmers must:bé ready, and wait the coming time when seeds must be committed beneath the sod, to wait until their appointed time to rise in fuller bloom and cultivated beauty. In March we often, plough the loose sandy plains that crumble apart and are not fastidious as to times and seasons,-- If frost penetrates then) it soon quits and leaves no mark+-and the early pea and turnip find a bed warm enough to give them a start beforethe cereal plants have thought of rising. But we sowgain in March in the southerly parts OF Massachusetts, and the earlier the better on sandy loams that crumble on ploughing. 'Stil we must not hurry the fields too early, and while there are jobs to be done about the house and barn. Pile up the 'wood, and in sheds too, if you have room--for wood is better when dried under a shelter than in uncovered piles. Apple trees are trimmed in March to save time, though good orchardists wo'd prefer a later day as June or May. But apple trees may be scraped now as well as at any time, and we recommend the scraping of old trees to destroy the har- bors made by the loose bark, for borers, insects and grubs, In March there is time to procure Plaster for spring sowing. 'The roads are often as good as in April, and we have so inuch more Jeisure time now, we ought to procure a supply for the season. April is the better month for sowing, but there is not avery strong objection to sowing this month where the ground is bare. Cattle need better hay now than in colder weather. Cows must haye par- ticular attention, and some meal too at the time of calving. They will fatten | their calves 'better for it, and will make more butter through the summer. The card should be used freely now,and if the hair comes off freely the cattle will be the better for it. Trees that have been supported by stakes should be looked to, the strings or withes that tied them should be examin- better without a stake than with it. The bark will be galled if the tree i$ not fast- ened to the stake. Ignorance is an evil, but a slavish mind, of trifling habits, eager for amuse- ment and novelty, and incapable of self- government, or of carrying out with per- severance any object in political or pri- vate life, isa greater evil than ignorance. a tool of any desperate work. The hotels|! ed--for if they are broken the tree is| A WORD OF FRIENDLY COUNSEL. | While we would avoid. causing need- less alarm among any portion of the col- ored' people, we would impress those most endangered)by that Infernal Ma- chine, the gitive Slave Law, with a proper caution and care for their own se- cane The passage of that statute, and the high price of slaves in the Southern man-markets, have given a fresh stimu- lus to the business of kidnapping' and slave-hunting throughout the North, but especially in Pennsylvania and other bor- der States. Incorrigible felons, vicious and abandoned men, who are sufficiently depraved to engage in such business,have too many inducements offered them un- der our national statute for us to hope that they will resist the temptation to be- come slave-hunters. The business pro- mises profit equal at least to horse steal- ing, burglary or highway robbery, with ess danger, andthe ' respectability "" of a " lawful" employment. -- It is therefore no matter for wonder that the. man-hunt is pursued with new ardor, vigilance and success. : We see no hope for the subjects of this infamous hunt, but in seeking a home, either under the sheltering laws of Can- ada, whither no blood-houfds can follow them, or further away from the slave bor- der, where there is sufficient humanity to make the law nugatory. While our de- termination *to disobey, by all chris- tian means, the 'fieidish. law, is only strengthened by every, new atrocity it has perpetrated, we are powerless to prevent its operation. " On the side of the op- pressor there is power,' 'There stands that cannibal Law, whetting its bloody teeth, and ravenous for its human prey. With it, and covering it from assault, stand a multitude of heartlessand servile politicians and greedy merchants, atime serving priesthood, and 'conscienceless press--hissing it upon its unprotected victims, aud denouncing all opposition to it as treason and anarchy. We had hoped to find enough regard for justice and luve of mercy in our community to protect the weak and innocent from its devouring summer is nigh. 'There is but a step be-||Tavages ; and that both lawless and legal- ized land-pirates would shrink _abashed from 'the moral: séntiment;which, would) everywhere frown upon, the unholy. busi-| ness, But with shame we confess that our hopes. have thus far failed. . Among nearly ahalfscore of daily papers in th city, while som~ arc rabid with pre-slave- ry venom, and incessantly vomit out their, hatred to the colored people und» calum- nies against the Abolitioeists, not one dares speak outa manly abhorrence of slave catching, or sympathy for the hunt- ed fugitive and his.triends. 'The same is true of the great mass of our hebdomadal papers; while, with two or three excep- tions, the clergy and religious teachers of the city, either openly defend slavery andthe Fugitive Law,and deride the idea of a "higher law," or they are dumb as the lips of death concerning these abom- inations. | No where in the North are the legal executioners of the slave-hunting statute so keen-scented, so eager, or so success- ful as here. 'This is especially true of the man who generally leads these ruth- less forays upon the peaceful homes of our State. / Disgraceful as are these facts to jour city and State, and especially to. those who shape and gue public opinion, we cannot shut our eyes tothem or withhold them from those who are immediately interested in them. There is no place of safety for the fu- gitive slave in all our state--no spot sa- cred from the tread of the kidnapper.-- The battle plains of Freedom, and the treaty ground of Peace en Brotherhood, are his hunting ground, and the Hall of Independence is converted into a slave factory. This is notto last forever. Wrong will not always triumph. 'Though hand join in hand--though all the powers of evil confederate together--though the wicked may flourish like a green bay trce, they will be confounded in their craftiness, their power wil] be broken and justice will triumph. No present success of Falsehood or Injustice can shake ur faith in the power of Truth, and the ulti- mate supremacy of Right. But now the harrassed and hunted fa- gitive is without shelter here,and it seems |to us that his safest course is removal to Canada or to the interior of New York or New England. Canada. offers flattering inducements \for the immigration of sober and indus- | rious colored men, and the spring and early summer, is the most favorable sea- son for such immigration, Its colored population are making praiseworthy el- | forts for self-improvement, and théir fa- + ; we ciliues for comfort and social, elevation are daily increasing, The climate issevere but healthful,and the soil is said to be.gaod, By industry, economy and energy a respectable liveli- hood might be gained. But we believe that in many parts of New England and New York, fugitives may be practically safe, and enjoy a mil- der climate and better opportunities for livelihood and for education to themselves moy and children than'in Canada, : That our pita and religion, like our LAW, are so debauched with slavery that thay deny that security here to the refus gees from Southern Cossacks and Hay- naus which a Mahommedan monarch gave the Hungarians, is too true, and therefore the poor fugitive must seek safe; ty from the blood-hounds and man-thief farther North. ai. BEAUTIES OF FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. bitsy A correspondent writing from Ripley; Ohio, sends us the following : '"A man by the name of Gilbert was shot dead in this county, not 'long since, by a fugitive slave. he slaye;gave him . fair warning to keep his distance--that he was prepared to defend himself, and would kill him if he did not stand off-- Gilbert, with two or three other blood- hounds, pushed on him. He then shot, and the poor wretch fell, was carriéd to'a house and 'died in a few days. The poor foolish slave stopped at the first house, ave himself up, and was carried back to the land of bondage, Let blood-hounds take care !"--Moercer (Pa.) Presbyterian, Feb, 28. re Na oa In the same paper, George Atcheson, of Clearfield 'county, 'nan an' ac- dQ count of seven 'coldréd méNin one eom- pany passing through that county about the 2Uth of January, on>their way to the "Hlome of the oppressed:" They were> pursued by kidnappers, aided by hired ruffians in the neighborhood, but. after several narrow escapes, from the, man- hounds, they eluded the chase, and their pursuers were 'compelled 'to go "back Without their game. It is feared; howev- er, that 'these have kidnappett a 'colored boy whom they hired under the pretense that they -were abolitionists, to: guide them 'to:a settlement of Qualkers,and' who has not since been heard of. Mr. Atch- eson says: aati a, "The boy was born' at Harrisburg, in this State, and knew nothing at all con+ cerning slavery or;where they were taking him, beamed hin "I hope the friends of humanity will haye an eye out after the boy, The two head fellows from this State, who com- manded the pirate gang, were, one of the name of Bracken, from Johnstown, Cam- bria county, the other of the name' of hristy, from the south of Indiana coun- ty. lam certain oftheir names. | think it was Christy that took possession of the boy. He had ajhound. along ;) he called it a blood-hound, and scared the women and boys, telling them, how that hound would tear up runaway slavess-- They hunted round the north part of this county for about eight days, and could get no track of their stray cliattels. They then broke -up their gang, and took an- other road home. They had a couple of names ona piece of paper of some, men in this region. They said they would make them pay all their bills with the full price of the runaways. I suppose that we will be called to Pittsburg in a short 'time for not catching these stray cattle." . a Since the publication of this letter we have private advices that the 'seven men," who proved. to be six men, and one woman disguised by male attire, have arrived safely in. Canada.--Penn, Freeman. FIRST DECLININGS. He that will find his home in repair, must stop cvery chink as soon as discoy- ered; and he who will keep his heart must not let a vain thought be long neg-, lected ; the serpent of heart apostacy 1s best killed in the egg of'a small remission of eare. Oh! if many poor decayed Christians had looked to their hearts in time, they had mever come to the sad pissthey now are in! We may say of heart-negleet, as the apostle doth of yain babblings, that they inerease to mere and more ungedliness. Little sins neglected will become great and unconquerable; the greatest crocodile once lay in an egg; the greatest oak was once but a acorn. The firing of asmal! train of powder may blow up all, by leading to a quantity.-- Men little thing what a proud, vain,wan-~ ton or worldly thought may grow to; be- hold how great a matter a little 'fire 'Ikin- dles!-- Christian Visitor, St. John's,