~The futare hi torian when é ; } | ~ people. + > ae em - = % i: i mn bs ¥ a ake "en " ; oe , s £ ~ , . " . . se "4 f { cs x i a - x > aya «i. * eae ~ = 5h a = = er * 7 % a aa ' . For the Voice of the Fi A _ | whenever it may suit his convenience.--| ed and approved last September, is a INTERESTING PETE M VER- We hope to hear from the Green Mouth most flagrant outrage 'upon the rights of , a : en; a most flagra it violation of Dear Sir :--Permit me the privilege 1 tary correspondent of And first Be Jet me occupy your attention with some] -- vice of the Fugitive." e fugitive slave law.-- mpiling the # 19th cen- nt of ganaitive slave law of 1850, We of the ote estiny | Hall e Atte sand co-Amer I ext gene-| anil develope. Happy would it be| this nation, if in anticipation of the hhadowed re: the people of this na- f being a vol ca a The vais of the Fugitive." reflections on memoirs of the first half of | tury, will discover in the enact th most potent influences upon t of the American Union, ut : ican Race, that the fi would earnestly betake themselves evise means for the peaceable aboli- tion of slavery--to avert the avenging arm of heaven. But unfortunately for a Je given over to their hardness of heart, and perversity of ways, in conse- quence of a long persistance in evil doings they will not repent. And a dissolution of the American Union, and the conse- went disenthralment of the slaves must be the result of tragic means brought about by one of those inscrutable decrees of Providence, that confound the wicked in their designs, and overwhelms guilty nations in the whirlpool of his wrath, at the very moment when their cup of. ini- quity is full tothe brim. The dissolution of the Union w this crowning act of the slave power by which northern men, are now driven to seriously calculate its value. 'The eman- cipation 'of our bondsmen must be the re- sult of the unsheathed sword that would then glisten immediately in the decision ofthe affairs of this continent, drawn from foreign and domestic scabbards.. When looking at this act, dark and damnable as itis, we derive consolation from these im- portant results it will precipitate in favor of huinan freedom, in spite of the whole combination of the leading politicians in the government, to bring about the con- trary by its enactments. It has roused the latent energies of a much abused peo- _ple to the necessity of self-preservation, and urged them to continue their exodus from worse than Egyptian bondage, and cross the great lakes, asthe Israclites once did the Red sea, and colonize them- selves, in a land whose rights and privi- leges are not founded in complexion,-- ao attests that emigration and settle- ment beyond the operation of political disabilities, are the great means, by which an oppressed people become reno- vated. I 1 baptism, poljtically, to a denationalized 'This last idea brings me to the consideration of another suggestion. You Canadian colonists who have thus been forced from the course of an unjust . political oppression, second only to the curse entailed upon the human race at the fall of Adam, owe a political evange- lization to your brethren for their redemp- tion from under the bonds-of this curse, commensurate with the liberty you now enjoy as British subjects. There is no time more expedient, no place more prop- er, and no persons more suitable than the Canadian refugees, to immediately organ- ize in their setilement, to facilitate the escape and comfortable settlement of more refugees in Canada, and for that to estab- lish co-operating agents, throughout the civilized world. Let the moral, pecunia- ry, and if needs be the physical means of an extended and powerful foreign in- fluence be concentrated to'crush the in- fernal institution of American slavery.-- You can do this. You are now disen- thralled by a political regeneration. The colored people in the United States can- not; the vain attempts at an effective na- tional organization amongst us, for the last twenty years proves this. The artful policy of the white man, which prescribes us all from all honorable employment, and makes us dependent on his menial drudg- ery for a livelihood, has sapped the ele- ment of unity amongst us, by thus depri- ving us of independent vocations, which are the bones and sinews of effective cor- poration. Then do you take hold of, and carry onthis noble work, and from your royal home breathe vitality in the languishing free colored people waning under this re- publican despotism. Establish an Asy- lum for the refugee, more secure than the sacred graves of pagan worship, or the Hebrew cities of refuge; and as sacred to the Africo-American as the ark of the covenant in the Temple of Jerusalem Was to the Jews; the sarcophagus of Mahomet at Mecca to the Moslems, and the tombs of the Apostles at Rome to the Catholic, toward which the most desolate and farthest removed of our' oppressed race in this country may turn their faces to perform theif devotions, with a strong- er hope in the providence of God. But I must now close. Pardon the length of this espistle, and allow me. again to speak a word for my fellow countrymen in chains through your columns. J We welcome the above voluntary cor- respondent to a place in our columns ill be brought about, by |* It is the regenerative power of ae tops through his eloquent pen.-- e invite him also, to act as agent in that vicinity, in procuring subscribers for the IN SIGHT OF A SLAVE STATE. The following resolutions were passed: Pursuant to notice the friends of the ti-Slavery cause assembled at Center ll, on the evening of April 14 iy d were called to order by Dr. W. H. risbane, of Cheviot: Officers pro. tem. re chosen as follows: Thomas Free- an, of Cincinnati, President; and Ed- ward Mathews, Secretary. The call for the Convention was read by the Secreta- ry, Prayer by Wm; M. Malou A Commit vas appointed to nominate permanent Officers of the Conyention,\-- Committee : Christian Donaldson, John De Graw, and Edward Harwood, of Cin- cinnati. Dr. Brisbane, in behalf of the ladies who had called the Convention stated its object. _ In the afternoon of Tuesday the follow- Ing persons were elected permanent of- ficers of the Convention. President--L. A. Hine, of Cincinnati. Vice Presidents--Thos. Freeman and John Joliffe, of Cincinnati. Secretaries--Edward Mathews of Wis- consin, and Sarah H. Ernst, of Cincinna- i, The President on taking the chair made an appropriate address. The following Preamble and Resolu- tions were introduced by the committee and by other members of the Convention. They were discussed during Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday by Messrs. Ward, Nevia, Treat, Rankin, Redding- ton,Mathews, Craven, Wambaugh, Price ae others, and were unanimously adopt- Whereas, we haye assembled at a pe- riod when the Anti-Slavery cause has reached a must eyentful crisis, and eee many in all parts of the country | will be looking to us for an expression of our views in this important stage of our enterprise, therefore, this Convention, as such an expression of its sentiments, ad- opts the following Resolutions. 1. That Liberty and Justice are in danger in the land ; three millions of our fellow beings are in chains ; a Fugitive Law has been passed, and throughout Slave Power threatens to reign supreme. 2. That now, therefore, is no time to sleep ; it is no time to be dead; it is the time to wake, and work, and haye anew in.the cause, it is the time to do, and suffer, and if need be, die; it is the time for every one who claims to be.a friend of the slave tolay his a// upon the altar ; to harness himself anew for the confliet ; to throw himself into the thickest of the fight ; and instead of being discouraged and tempted to lay down arms by the untoward events of these times, to lay himself out to do still more and more, neither giving nor taking quarter, till slavery shall be--not circumscribed in its limits--not defeated in its demands with regard to the Fugitive Law--not divorced from the General Government-- but actually and wholly abolished from the land. 3. That, as a great crisis demands great exertions, and as "in union there is strength," the present alarming condi- tion of things repuires of all Abolitionists, that, so far as possible, they unite and stand together, endeavoring, on one common platform, to re-organize the Anti-Slavery sentiment of the country, and thus to enlist the combined energy of all who hate oppression, in one deter- mined system of efforts to destroy the blighting curse, and to ** proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the in- habitants thereof." 4, That in carrying on such a system of efforts, Mass Conyertions of the friends of the slave, irrespecti~e of sect or party, ought to be held in all parts of the country. Lecturers should be sent out to preach the gospel of emancipation in every town and village; anti-slavery books, tracts, and newspapers, should be scattered broadcast over the land; the question of abolition should be brought home to every man's herrth-stone ; and a continual agitation thus be kept up, till the national conscience shall be rous- ed, the public heart changed, and, as a necessary consequence, slavery peacea- bly abolished. 5. That Liberty and Slavery are as antagonistic to each other as light and darkness, and therefore both cannot co- exist in the same country and under the same government. 6. That slavery,as it exists in the United States, is the greatest political and civil despotism on the face of the earth. 7. That slavery is antagonistic to the Christian religion, and its greatest ene- my in this country. "8. That slaveholding is practical athe- ism, and pro-slavery ministers and Church members are merely impostors under the cloak of religion. 9. That the Fugitive Slave Law, pass- 2: the length and breadth of the land the i roan the Federal Constitution ; and therefore it is an sean which the moral, so- ial, and political influence of all people ight to be ies. 10. That the recent delivery of Simms to his claimants in Boston, is a demon- stration of the utter and hopeless subser- viency of the National Adminisiration to the Slave Power, and the readiness of the ruling politicians of our country to place the whole North under the despo- tism of military tule, to favor the heayen- daring objects and purposes of the Slave rower. * a 11. That our friends in Boston, so nobly stood by Crafts and his wife id Shadrach and Simms, deserve and ° this Convention, and the friends of hu- manity everywhere. PaOMlTioN BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Wasuineron, 25th April, 1851. Whereas, There is reason to believe that a military expedition is about to be fitted out in the United States, with the intention to invade the Island of Cuba, a Colony of Spain, with which this coun- try is at peace, Whereas, It is believed that this expedition is instigated and set on foot by foreigners, who dare to make our shores the scene of their guilty and hostile preparations against a friendly power, and seek by falsehood and mis- representation, 1o seduce our own citi- zens, especially the young and inconside- rate into their wicked schemes, an un- grateful return for the benefits conferred upon them by the people in permitting them to make our country an asylum from oppression, and in flagrant abuse of their hospitality thus extended to them. And, whereas, such expeditions can only be regarded as adventures for plunder and roberry, and must meet the condem- nation of the civilized world, whilst they are derogatory to the character of our country, in violation of their laws, and expressly prohibited by our own. Our statutes declare that if any person shall within the territory, of or jurisdic- tion of the United States begin or set on foot or provide or prepare, the means for any military expedition or ages to ried on from thence against the y or dominions of any Boreign Prince or State, or of any Colony, Dis- trict, ore people with whom the United States are at peace, every person so of- tending shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not ex- ceeding $3000 and imprisoned not more than three years. . Now, therefore, I have issued this my proclamation, warning all persons who shall. connect themselves with any such enterprise or expedition, in violation of our laws and national obligations, that they will thereby subject themselves to the heavy penalties denounced against such offenders, and will forfeit their claim to the protection of this government, or any interference in their behalf, no mat- ter to what extremity they may be reduc- ed, in consequence of their illegal con- uct. And therefore, I expect all good citi- zens, as they regard our national repu- tation, as they respect their own laws and the laws of nations, as they value the blessings of peace and the welfare of their country, to discountenanee, and by all lawful means, and prevent any such en- terprize ; and I call upon every officer of this government, civil or military, to use all efforts in his power to arrest for trial and punishment, every such offender against the laws of his country. - Given under my hand this 25th day of April: In the year of our Lord 1851. MILLARD FILLMORE. W.S. Derrick, Acting Sec. of State. A Larce Day's Work on THE Erie Raitroap.--On Friday of last week the income. of the Erie Railroad was over Three Millions of Dollars. This is a larger day's work than was ever done by any Railroad in the world, yet it is easi- ly explained. At the commencement of the Road, the State loaned its bonds to the amount of three millions of dollars.-- Subsequently an act was passed, provi- ding that if the Company should con- struct a single track from the Hudson River to Lake Erie, and run its engines over it before the middle of May, the State would release the Road from the lien of three millions which it held upon it. On Friday the necessary affidavit was filed with the Controler,and of course the release was granted in accordance with the provisions of the act. Mrs. Bioomer's New FasHion of short dress and trowsers has been adopted in Syracuse. The Standard of that city, said on the 14th inst :-- Several ladies appeared in the streets yesterday with dresses of a very laconic pattern, and pantaloons a Ja-Turk. The new style looks decidedly tidy and neat, and imparts to the wearer quite a spright- ly and youthful appearance. receive the appproval and sympathy of| _ ANTI-SL, The A ersary of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society will be held (D. V. in the Broadway Tabernacle, . | Tuesday, May 6th, at 3 o'clock P. M., on which oecasion an Abstract of the Annual Report will be presented, with a set of resolutions embodying the great principles of the Association. Addresses may be expected from several distinguish- ed advocates of Human Freedom. The Friends of Liberty are invited to attend. A meeting for discussion and for busi- ness will be held in the Lecture Room of the Tabernacle, May, 7th, beginning at 9 o'clock A.M. It is earnestly hoped that the friends of the cause throughout the United States will be represented at his meeting. i WM. JAY, Se LEWISTAPPAN,§ -- 8. E. CORNISH, THOS. RITTER, _ Anti-Slavery Editors are requested to give the aboye one or more a \ Gun THE WATER-CURE JOURNAL, | Devoted to Physiology, Hydropathy, and th Laws of Life---The Water-Cure Journal is | published monthly,illustrated with engravings exhibiting the Structure, Anatomy, and Phys- iology of the Human Body with familiar in- tructions to learners, It is emphatically a Journax or Heatru, adapted to all classes, and is designed'to be a complete EAMILY GUIDE, in all cases, and in all diseases. Hypropatuy will be unfolded, and so ex- plained, that all may employ in its various diseases, even those not curable by any other means. 'There is no system so simple, harm- Jess,and universally applicable, as the Water- cure. Its effects are almost miraculous, and ithas already been the means of saving the lives of thousands who were entirely beyond the reach of all other remedies. | The Philosophy of Health will be fully dis- cussed, including Food, Drinks, Clothing, Air and Exercise, showing their effects on both body and mind. TERMS IN"ADVANCE. Single copy, one year . . . Hive,copies; So. 3). Tencopies " .7 00 Twenty copies, ay mens nae - 1000 >> Please address letters, post paid, to Fowler & Wells, No. 131 Nassau street New York. . $1 00 - 400 Skea te ne! wake " LIST OF AGENTS. CaNnapa West---Amherstburg, D. Hotch- kiss and Levi Foster. Sandwich--Israel Campbell. CuatruAm--James E. Grant. Dawn Mirirs--George Cary. Toronto--J. T. Fisher. Micurean.--ZJ. I'. Dolbeare, Raison; Iran- cis King, Flint; Dr. Barnes, Owasso; H. Day, Lansing ; Chester Gurney, Centreville ; J. G. Farr, Commerce. Massacausrerrs.--R. I. Walcutt,21 Corn- hill, Boston; Mrs. W. Blakemore, Boston ; J. Morse, No. 5 Water-street ; Henry Rich- ards, Fall River; Rev. Wm. Brewster, Low- ell; Rufus: Elmer, Springfield; Rey. A Stockman, Worthington; W. Harley, North- ampton; W. Fuller, Amherst; Rev. Mr. Fos- ter, Littleville. New Jersry.--Rev. E. P. Rogers. New Yorx.--Wm. Harned, No. 61 John- st., New York; L. C. Matlack, No. 3Spruce- st.; J. N. Glaucester, 40 West Broadway ; Wm. Rotter, Hudson; John Miles, Albany; G. W, Loguen, John Lyle, Syracuse ; George Weir Jr., Buffalo; Lewis Clark, Busti. New Hampsuire.--Edward Bracket, Do- ver; A. T.. Foss, Manchester , Elder Brooks, Great Falls, Ouro.--Wm. Merrett, Maumee City; H. K. Douglass, Cleveland; David Jenkins, Co- lumbus; J. R. Gains, Cincinnati. Rev. J. M. Brown. . PrennsyLvanta.--Dr. Bies, Wm. Still, Es- ther Moore, Philadelphia; M. R. Delancy, Pittsburg. Eyota np.--Rev. Josiah Henson, London also Rey.H. H.Garnet and Dr. J. W. C. Pen- nington. READY MADE CLOTHING. FALL AND WINTER, 18 HE Subscribers are prepared to offer one of the best assortments of READY MADE CLOTHING ever offered in this city. Without extending a iene catalogue of articles, they would say in general that their stock comprises a full as- sortment of Over Coats, Dress, Frock tud f£ack Coats, Pantaloons, Vests, Shirts, Furnishing Goods, &c., inevery variety of quality and style. Also, India Rubber and Oil Clo'hing, Trunks, Car- et Bags and Umbrellas. One of the firm having spent most of thesummer in the ea tern markets, in the purchase of their stock, they are confident their goods for style, cheapness and adaptedness to this market canuot be excelled. 'They would also add, that having confidence in the "ONE PRICE" system, believ- ing it to be more satisfactory to -all who wish to deal upon fair and honorable principles, they have fully adopted, and design strictly toadhere to it in their intercourse with theircustomers. All there- fore who favor them with their ly upon being dealt with upon ciples: 1st, Their goods shall .always be offered at the lowest market rates. 24. The price first asked, being the lowest at which the article can be afforded, and will be strictly adhered to. ; Under this system those who are not judges of goods, will purchase as cheap as the most ex- pert and finished buyer, and the proprietors hold themselves responsible promptly to correct any mistakes, or to make good any repre sentation made to customers, while purchasing at their establishment. Af Thankful for the patronage heretofore so li- berally bestowed upon this establishment, they solicite their old friends and all purchasers of clothing to call and examine their stock and rices before purchasing. _ pure"HALLOCK & RAYMOND Sep. 2f rt 50. eee may re- he following prin- Detroit: GHT SUMMER KING STOVE. as been or is now | public--(fifteen thousand of them have been sold in that _time)--has undergone a fierce competi tion with the "thousand and one stoves!' pitted against it, not only in 'Troy, (the Stove City,) but in most of the cities of this Union-- think it has triumphed and is No, 1, first best. P. P. Stewart, the inventor, is now eshibitin ane of his Stoves with a large oxen combining al qual _of the one patented in 1838, with greater facilities for baking and roasting. One among the many advantages which thos. stoves has over others, is, that aJl the pieces need- ed for repairs, belonging to the Stove patesfted 12 yearssince, together with the summer dress , bricks §;c., can be had now at our store, 323 River street, where a general assortment of Copper, Tin, Sheet lron, Hollow Ware, Furnaces, Summer Bakers, Platform and Counter Scales, may be found on fair play terms and at one price. Roofing, repairing and jobbing, in our line, done.at onee, and by ex- perienced Copper and Tin Smi We have the uincy, National, Buck & Wheeler Cooking Stoves on hand, tegether with an assortment of Parlor Stoves for wood or coal. P. P. STEWART & Ww. FL Stewart & Mlackaies received a supply of the | burg an 'roy, N. Y., May 17th, 1851. famous McGregors Ventilative Stove, as woll as anly's Coal Burners.--Nov. 15, 1851. Mo AD ORRICK, © TAILORING AND LOTHES CLEANING ESTABLISHMENT, | Griswold st., Baggs' New Bloch, Jefferson avenue, Detroit. jan29tf cm LIVERY STABLE HE undersigned, thankful for past favors, respectfaily inform the citizens of Amhe: the public generally, that he continues to keep on hand, for hire, all kinds of Livery commodations; such as horses and carriages. buggies are both double and single, and his horses are good under the saddle as well as in the harness Persons who may favor him with cusiom will find his charges reasonable and stock first rate. LEVI FOSTER. N.B. He has constantly for*hire a greater and superior variety of sleighs and cutters than can e found in any similar establishment in this towm jan29tf NEW LINE OF STAGES. -- Accommodation line. from Amherstburg to Windsor and back. orth of R.LEVI FOSTER will starta new line of Stages on the above route, from Mr. Marie's tavern, Amherstburg, at 8 o'clock on Tuesday and | Friday mornings: and from Mr. Beeman's Hotel, | Windsor, at 9 o'clock P.M, on the same days. (= Extras started when required..i} As Mr. Foster has prepared the most excellent teams, and very comfortable covered conveyances both by rede and runners) he trusts to obtain a air share of public patronage the present winter. His stages will commence their trips on the last day of 1850. Amherstburg, jan29sf SONS OF TEMPERANCE --_ CONFECTIONARY SALOON. BENJAMIN LEE OULD inform the inhabitants of Detroit and vicinity, that he has opened'a new Confec- * tionary Saloon, on Jefferson Avenue, one a above Cass st., where he will be happy tosee his friends. He will keep on hand a large supply of STEAM REFINED MOLASSES CANDY and other confectionary. A Iso, PIES, CAKES, BEER, ICE-CREAM, SODA WATER, &C; All of which will be of the FIRST QUALITY. W.F. PARKER, No. 157 Woodbridge st., anhoae Davis' Hotels sign of " Point Comfort." AS fitted us an Eating House, where every delicacy can be furnished in better style than at any other establishment in the city. He is pre- pared to supply any number of tne best cooks and most experienced waters for parties, &c., on the shortest notice : P. S. A few day boarders wanted. jan7tf-- Det. 'ANTI-SLAVERY BOOKS, O be had in Detroit, at McFarren's Book Store Jefferson Avenue : The UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF SLAVE- RY, bv Lysander Spooner. HENRY BIBB'S NARRATIVE OF SLAVE- RY, Illustrated with Engravings. This work will be sent to order by applying to the book agent of the rue Wesleyan book concern No. 8 Sprace st., New York, or to Wm. Harned, at ,61 Jehn st., at the following prices: Paper COVErS+-seeeeees e204 $0 37 Cloth binding..... 0 aa Extra gilt bound.... 00 eww deeeed 1 For cash in hand one-third will be taken off. UNIV ERSAL HISTORY of the COLORED and INDIAN RACE, by B. B. Lewis. STARING & LARKINS, | Auction and Commission Merchants in Detroit, opposite City Hall Market. RY GOODS of various kinds, also new and D second-handed furniture will be sold here eyv- ery day, Sundays excepted, at 9 o'clock A. M., and et 2 P,M. D. VOGELSANG & J. HAGGERTY. SADDLES, HARNESS, TRUNKS, \ X JITH all the necessary farming apparatus, at the lowest prices, repairing of Hemneni; &e. will also be done to order, feb26tf WINDSOR, C.W. J. & W. H. CRAIG, WHOLESALE GROCERS, Near the foot of Woodward ave., Detroit. (CASH PAID FOR FURS. jan2ote WARM, COLD & SHOWER A EC Ee See T. JOHNSON Has fitted up an Establishment in elegantetyle for SEAYUEMG. MAIR - DRESSING AND BATHING, On Jefferson Avenue, adjaining the Michigan fi Exchange, Dero. = jan29tf MRS. ALEXANDER'S BOARDING HOUSE, On the corner of Bates & Congress sts., RS. A. furnishes the best of accommodation on the most reasonable terms. Please give heracall ; ot: His at h in market--our rea- -- ig is thus ; It has been ten years before the # *