ee - = For the Voice of the Fugitive. The Midnight Wail. Borne on the breath of the midnight gale, List to a deep, mysterious wail! Tt tells of anguish and heart felt woe, Cuming with accents dread und low. Tt cometh not from the distant strand Of Afric's dark and benighted land; It cometh not from the peopled shore, Lull'd by the boundless Pacific's rour. Tt comeih not from the ancient towers Of Burope's dark and oppressive powers, Where the Russian serf to his lord must kneel, Or the lonesome life of an exile feel. 'Tis not a sound from the ocean wave, As some hapless crew find a wat'ry grave, And sink far down through the unknown deep, Yor aye to rest in their long, long sleep. But it comes from a land of trees and flowers, Where gentle zephyrs enchant the bowers, Where the orange blooms 'neath a southern sky, And earth is decked in her fairest die. 'Tis the wail of m'lions of wretched slave: Who toil where America's proud flag waves, For no gleam of joy on their path is shed, \ And tho last star of hope from their sky hath fled. 'Tis the wail of the fugitive over the land, Who must not be cheered by a friendly hand, Anil the hunter follows his stealthy track, Vo fetter his limbs and bear him back. 'Tis the wail of the self-freed, in bondage again, Bountl down once more by the galling chain; Torn from his friends and his own dear hearth, From liberty--dearest to man on earth, In "the land of the free, and the home of the brave," The heel of oppression has crushed down the slave, And the boudman sighs for his lonely grave, Where America's " star-spangled banners " waye. Aye, more, for the strong arm of law is stretch'd forth, Uplitting the South, but degrading the North, Compelling her freeman to lurk for its prey, And hunt down the fugitive fleeing away. O Liberty! hast t'ou forever fled ¥rom the land where thy heroes and patriots bled, Where they once to the breeze thy flag unfurled, And back o'er the waters oppression was hurled? Haye thy sons grown degenerate, haughty, and youd, Or the fields that their forefather's cannon have lowed ; Forgotten their deeds, when for freedom they bled, Til che proud British Lion in infamy fled? Ilas thy emblem, the eagle that soars up on high, Spread bis wings far away, in some friendlier sky, No longer his pinions in grandeur to wave, Where man boasts of freedom, and treads on his slave 4 Americans, rise | fight for freedom again ! Gird on for the battle, and march to the plain, No longer ery peace, while enthralled by your chains, An} over our nation, vile tyranny reigns ! O listen, T pray, to the poor bondman's ery ! It has pierced through the clouds, it ascends up on high | Ant the Godwho will answer the captive's prayer, Will grant you success in the contest there. " Our Union is dear," not in chains and in woe! And God in his vengeance its wreck shall strew Ona crimson sea, from her son's own veins, If she free nut the captive from slavery's chains ! Let the taunt no longer come oer the sea, "Three millions of slaves in the land of the free;" O wipe the foul blot from America's name, hat now fills her true sons with sorrow and shame | Then the millions of Afric's sable race, With full hearts of gladness, your deeds shall re- trace, When all are free, and our flag shall wave O'er the "land of the free, and the home of the /brave." ay Ci ea For the Voice of the Pugitive. Strength added to the Refugees? Home. Berlin, Erie, county Ohio, March 19. Mr. Editor,--Last January, friend Ben- ham paid usa visit, and gave an address in behalf of the " Refueee Home Society." Pledg2s were given to the amount of $31, (the amount has since been increased to over fifty.) it was resolved to form ay auxiliary society ; accordingly the friends met and adopted the following constitution. Art. 1. This society shail be called the "Berlin Refugee Home Society." Art. 2. This society shall be auxiliary to the Canada " Refugee ILome Society." Ayt. 3. The officers of this society shall consist of a President, Vice-president, Cor- responding and Necording Secretary, and Board of Trust. Art. 4. Any person may become amem- her of this society by contributing to its funds, and signing this constitution. Art, 6. The 'Treasurer shall keep a list of the names of the donors to the society, and opposite each name mak the amount paid from time to time; he shall keep an account of the time and amount of all col- lections taken by the society ; he shall give the agents of the society receipts for all moneys which they shall collect and pay into the treasury ; and the receipts shall contain the names of the donors and the amounts paid by each; and if the money received, has been taken by collection, the amount time and place of such collections, | shall be stated in the receipt; le shall pay oyer all moneys received, to the Treasurer of the Canada Refugee ITome Socioty, unless otherwise directed by the society. ae" ' parent society, or its authorized agents he shall do so in the presence of competent witnesses ; he shall annually make a detailed report of the financial affirs of the society ; he shall also keep a list of all pledges made separate from the list of amounts paid. Art.6. The members of the Board of Trust shall severally be constituted agents of the society ; and shall be provided with credentials, signed by the President and Sceretary ; they shall collect funds, receive pledges, and take up collections, which they shall hand over to the 'Treasurer, with a list of the names of the donors, and the amount paid and pledged by each, with the amount time and place of all collections taken, and shall receive from the Treasurer a receipt for the same; they shall each make a detailed report at the annual meeting. ' Art. 7, The Secretary shall record the amount received at each meeting, and the total amount received during the year; he shall receive and. record all the reports of the officers of the society. Art 8. The officers and agents of this society shall receive no compensation from the funds of the society. Art. 1, The officers of this society shall be elected annually. i Art. 10, The regular meetings of this society shall be held on the fourth Friday of each month, and the annual meeting on the fourth Friday in January. Art. 11. The society shall take up a col- lection at every recular meeting. Art. 12. The funds of this society shall be devoted exclusively to the purchase of lands for the refugees in Canada. Art. 18. The society shall, at the monthly mecting in December, appoint a committee of two, to audit the Treasurer's accounts, which committee shall report at the annual mecting. Art. 14. This constitution may be amended by a yote of a majority of the members present at any regular meeting of the society, provided the proposed amend- ment be submitted in writing at the pre- vious regular meeting, Francis Barry. Cor. Secretary. Address--Huron, Erie Co., Ohio. { Reply to Govermor Munt. By Geanir Suita--continued. But it not the Colonization Society only, that would colonize our people'; and it is not Africa only, to which they are urged to go. Many persons would haye them colonized in Canada; and many in the West Indies. But why need they be colo- nized anywhere? They do not wish to be. They dread, to be. This land is their home, They have chosen it for their home; and, in common with all the children of men, they have a right to chose their home in any portion of the earth. Itis their home too, if being born in it would make it their home. Again, it is emphatically their home, from the fact, that some of them, and many of their fathers, fought to defend it from foreign dominion. The most unserupulous slanderer of the colored people has never dared to deny the promptitude, courage, and effort, with which colored men encountered the enemy in the American Ievolution andin our subsequent war with Great Britain. But more emphatically is this land the home of the colored people, because they have earned so large a share of its fields with their sweat and tears and blood--the sweat and tears and blood of their unpaid and lash-extorted toil. Tt is a superficial and mistaken philoso- phy, which. argues, that the colored people can leave, without reluctance, and even with alacrity, a home so abundant in suf- ferings and sorrows. If not to all, never- theless to the thoughtful and better portion of them it is made the dearer by what they have endured in it. The room, in whieh we have but laughed and danced, we care little for, and quickly forget. But the room in which we have often been aflicted by sickness or death, is forever sacred to our hearts. We love to revisit it, and to linger amidst its sorrowful associations. It is the free colored people, whose right to remain in America is called in question. All admit, that the slaves may stay here, as long as they are slaves. But, not only have the free colored people, in common with the slaves, a title, and the strongest title, to a home in America--not only. may they remain here--but there are reason why they. must remain here. Here they must remain to sympathize with their brethren in bonds; and to keep hope and courage alive in those brethren. Ever and annon, they can be doing something to keep the slave from despair, Tor instance, hdtv cheering to him must haye been the news of the Christiana triumph! Walf a dozen such exhibitions of bravery and manliness on the part of the free blacks, would em- bolden the slaves to demand their liberty. By the way, the next generation will claim, that there is nothing in the annals of Am3- rican heroism to surpass the Christiana triumph. And, yet, James Buchanan, the Presidential candidate, would give the coat from his back not to have it known at the South, that Christiana is in his own County. low far too must the brave and beautiful beaving of the free blacks in the cele- brated Syracuse Rescue have gone to encourage their enslaved brethren to eseape Whenever he shali pay over money to. the from slavery, and trust themselves among | such protector J k as those at Christiana and Syracuse, are as necdful to interest and educate the whites, as they are to revive the drooping hopes and stimu- late the faltering courage of the slaves. I have witnessed--and I need not say with what inexpressible delight--how rapidly, under the influenc? of this celebrated Kes- cue, the people of Syracuse and of the whole County of Onondaga haye grown in truth and in the love of freedom, in manli- ness and philanthropy. Iam prepared to say, that a similar Rescue in every County of this State would have the speedy effect ofarraying every County in the State against slavery. , Another purpose, for which it is indis- e free colored people re- ¢ yyis that they may keep nt cry in the ears of the slave- holding Pharaohs: "Let my people go." and still another purpose is that their Douglasses Wards and their other strong and e] t men may continue to urge, as their complexion gives them special advantage for doing, the claims of the slave upon th sciences of the whites. But it is neeedful for the free colored people to remain in America most of all for the purpose of regaining their self-re- spect of others. It is here, that they are to reform themselves ; and, by the influence of such reformation, to reform their enemies. It is here that they must retrace their dis- graceful steps. They must recover their self-respect in the presence of those, who have seen them throw it away, and who have despised them for the shameful sacrifice. Thus, will they save and bless themselves. Thus, will they save and bless the whites. Thus, will they kill the Colonization Society, than which, always excepting themselves, (for they are their own worst enemies), they have no greater enemy. Isaid, that they would thus be the means of killing the Colonization Society :--for whilst, on the one hand, it is true, that nothing short of their voluntary debasement can make them willing to be shoved off to Africa, so, on the other hand, it is true, that, their returning self-respect would leave the "' Ebony " line of steamers without employment. Suppose that, for, the last fifteen years, the free colored people had sternly refused, (as one man, at least, has, during all that time, be- sought them to do), to remain in political and ecclesiastical parties with persons, almost all of whom will not consent to eat by their side, or even worship by their side; many of whom would kick them out of thiir parlors; and many of whom would love to enslave them :--and suppose, moreover, that, during all these fifteen years, they had been quitting the Cities, where the mass of them rot both physically and morally, and had gone into the country to become far- mers and mechanies :--suppose, I say, all this--and who would have the hardihood to aftirm, that the Colonization Society could have lived until this time? It is true, that the Colonization Society lives upon the malignity of the whites; but it is true that it yes upon the voluntary de- gradation of the blacks. I do not say that the colored people are more debased than white people would be, if as persecuted, oppressed, and outraged, as the colored people. But I do say, that they.are de- based, deeply debased : and that to recover themselves, they must become heroes, rare heroes, selfdenying heroes, capable of achieying 1 great moral victory--a two- fold victory--a yictory over themselves, and a victory over their enemies, I referred to colonization in Canada. To such colonization there is comparatively very little objection. 'The thirty thousand blacks collected in Canada are within see- ing and hearing distance of their enslaved brethren. They have not deserted those brethren and gone away to forget them, and build up another nation, and make of themselyes another people. 'They are in Canada for a season only. Day and night, they sympathise intensly with their breth- ren, from whom they are temporaily sepa- rated. I spoke of the incessant and strong sym- pathy of the blacks in Canada with their oppressed brethren, Let me add, that, whether tightly or wrongly, they are, day and night and incessantly, waiting for the arrival of the hour, in which to express that sympathy in the most decisive and effective forms. 'haf hour will surely come, unless prevented by the repentance of the slaye- holders : and when it shall come, the soon- to-be sixty thousand blacks of Canada, who, it must be remembered, are the picked men the heroes, the very dare-davils, of the South, will constitute no inconsiderable ele- ment in that deadly strife, in which, to use the admonitory words of Thomas Jefferson, "the Almighty has no attribute, which can take side" with the slaveholders. Men of blood are those Canada blacks--nourishing their revenge by the ineffaceable remem- brance of the unutterable wrongs, which they have endured, and by the tales of similar wrongs, which fresh fugitives from the Southern prison-house are daily pouring into their ears. aa I conclude with saying, that, if there are members of the Legislature, who wish to give money to the Colonization Society, let them give it from' their own pockets, and not presume to give it from the treasury of the State. To give it from the treasury of the State is to thrust their hands into my pockets and into the pockets of the tens of a Se . pore Te thousands, who, in common with me, regard | that Society as an unparalleled compound | of hypocrisy and meanness and malignity, and as the shameless servant of the slave- holders. We had rather be plundered by highwaymen, than have our money taken from us for the purpose of strengthening the bands of such a Society. Nay, we had rather our money were taken from us to buy daggers to plunge into the bosoms of our colored brethren :--for the plans and policy of the American Colonization Society, are nore murderous than daggers. Respectfully, your friend, Gerair Suirn. From the Prisoner's Friend. The Philosophy of Pumishment. BY EDMUND QUINCY. The philosophy of punishment is part and parcel of the philosophy of crime. Punishment is in the economy of the Divine government, it should be in the economy of human government, a necessary and proportionate consequence of crime. By crime we mean the violation of law, Divine or human; and by punishment, the penalty which waits upon it. Corvection would be a more appropriate and signifi- wt term to. describe. the punitive pro- cess of the natural laws. It will be the proper description of the punitive process of the municipal laws, wheneyer men are wise enough to lay hold of the more excel- lent way. We enter into no discussion of the theclogical questicns connected with this subject. We leave to others to con- sider whether the Divine justice can or cannot be satisfied without penal expiation of offences against its laws, in another life. We shall confine ourselves exclusively to the operation of the natural laws, as they are to affect the condition of men in this world. This world and its inhabitants are the proper objects of human science. As to matters affecting this life, we walk by sight. We can gather together the materials, arid analyze and classify them, until they take the form and substance of a science, exact or approximate, according to its nature; of which latter description is the science of prison discipline. A Fight in Comgress. The Tribune gives the following yersion of a fiat im Congress, which occured on the 12th inst. "The 'union and harmony' seeured by the passage and maintenance of the Fugi- tive Slave Law were freshly illustrated yesterday in the House of Representatives by a fight between Messrs. Brown and Wil- cox, both Members from Mississippi, slave- holders and 'Democrats,' but Brown belong- ing to the "state Rights, and Wilcox to the 'Union wing of the party. "The worst part of the affair is the light manner in which it was passed over by the House, as with former outrages of the kind. Here are two men, both under the highest obligations to behave themselves, indulging in an exhibition of their temper and breed- ing which deeply, cruelly disgraces and in- jures their country--injures it worse than does the peculator who steals $100,000 from the Treasury. Yct they are let off without even a reprimand, as was the ruffian Borland by the Senate, on the occasion of his: breakive Mr. Kennedy's nose by a blow of his fistsome days ago. Thus brawls and blackeaurd displays are incited by the per- feetimpunity which they receive at the hands of Congress. "Tt only remains for the People to act worthily in the premises. A house which thus permits the nation to be diseraced by its members without remonstrance, makes the guilt and shame its own, and should be dealt with accordingly.-- Z'rue Wesleyan. Laws concerning Colored Seamen. The British authorities are not at all disposed to let drop the controversy with the State of South Carolina, on the sub- ject of her law for arresting and confining colored seamen who arrive therein British ships. All the papers relating to the action of the recent Legislature, and the correspondence between the British consul and the Governor of the State-bave been printed in a pamphlet form by the British consul. In one of his letters it is dis- tinetly intimated that the British Goyern- ment will see in the issue of this last attempt to obtain a modification of the law from South Carolina herself, the end of all expectations of redress from what she con- ceives to be a grievance, and must resort to ulterior measures. These ulterior mea- sures are by federal or legal appeal, to a reliance upon the Government of the United States "to carry out, with the universal support of the country, the stipu- lations of their treaties with foreign nations in their integrity, and to enforce equally in all ports of the country, the laws and constitution of the land." Another alter- native is suggested, that of "retaliatory "' measures' to be taken by Great Britain against the particular ports in which these regulations exist. From the tone of Mr. Matthews' letter, it is evident that he thinks his Government will not suffer the ques- tion to rest long without pursuing the subject to a decided issue. __ The right of the slaveholding States to make regulations prohibiting the residenca test the constitutionality of the law, with | atgong them of free blacks coming any quarter, as justly objects of suspicion, and dangerous to their internal tranquillity is one that will not be relinquished. r trona For the Volce ofthe Fugitive, Report from C.C. Feote, Hartford, Conn., March 12, Herrrorp? A. M.E.C., W.S. Collins $25 9 G, M. Welch -- : ee ty CO. H. Taleott - ' shop S. P. Brockett - 3 2: SRD H. E Goodwin - - ei C.R. Comstock - = Deg Ex Goy. Trumble - en Bao H. A. Perkins = - = SRD L.S. Robinson - - Om) Bishop Thomas Robins -- - ana Miss A. Goodinan - ep Mrs. A. Holt ea - = eo J, Beach - a 2 ae J, F. Judd - a serps N, 0. Kelloge - : iia ty Il. LB. Comp = e See) J. A. Ayers - S Pee J.S, Curtiss - : Be a Miss Francis Lyon - 2 ey 5. 1k, x = es ne 3 0 Thomas Smith - : - - 10 6 J. and W. Chapman - eS) Pease and Hastord - - N. L. Gallup - - - Mis. Thrall - - : Froten Africanus - - 2 or coe Too Pe Pe Hw 1 cS Mrs. L. H. Sigourney - = 0 C. G. Finney - - = 0 S. Andrews > - es 0 P. Williams ar - -' 6 0 George Brenley - = eee) Peter Cush and Sisters - - 41 75 WErHERSFIELD : Butler N. Strong - - 50° 0 To be paid quarterly, paid - 12, 50 Mark Tucker, D. D. - = 28 0 Deep liver Con, Chureh - = Tas 0 Baptist Church | - - - 26 29 FARMINGFORD : F. A. Miller - - ee) Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society -10 0 Mrpp.erown: N. Bacon - - ere bye, () Benjamin Douglass - pe) C. Wetmore - - =p O Mrs. J. G. and Harriet Baldwin - 3 0 Daniel R. Benham and others - 29 76 Mippierie.p: D. and W, Lymon - - 10 9 Durvam: J.H. Parsons - - a, 0 5 0 Denis Camp - - c , For the Voice of the Fugitive. Hickory Grove, March 7. Revort of J. F. Dolbeare, agent o! the Refugees' Ilome Society. Oakland County, Farmington : Luther Lapham . ' St 0 Ira Power , t oe B0: A. D. Power . , seaalieee 0! A. L. Power, 6c.; D. B. Power, 2¢.; J. N. Power, 2c. (three little boys) paid. aa 5 . 010 Mary L. Power (a litt!e girl) eeaOawo B. Moore < seo) 10 G. Webster, in October . argh 0: H. Hutton, in October =. aad G. Power, paid. , ' wi alas 0 J. Power, in June i oe ole) Susan E. Baldwin, in July sles Tiaue O O. Taylor ; 3 SRO) J. L. Taylor, in October . x Se 0 G. Culver, paid . : . 0 50 John Thayer 3 ' icity) Rufus Thayer, in January . ee Ypsilauti : S. D. Moore ; é : 0 Job Gorton ; : ' 0 S. E, Kirdy : : lend William Dexter, York . : 0 Stephen Walker, Fairfield, in Oct. 0 Joseph L. Dunbar, paid. . 50 Richard Queleh, Sylvania . 5 50 IF. E. Bush, Sandstone . . " 50 David Rogers, do. ; ° 0 A Friend, paid. 5 : 50 Mrs. Mary A. Fossett, in October 50 Mr. F. Fossett, in October . ' 50 Henry Clapp, in October . 0 John Dearin, in October . 3 0 C. Pope, paid . 50 Samuel Higeins, Springport ; Mrs. Juliet Comstock, paid A.J. Gaylord, paid BRE COFrP RH ONWKFRrPOUsS eer OFF OCOOCUNoOCoOr ake Hee S Hermon Landon, in October f 0 Mrs. Sarah A. Brown, in October . 50 William Ludlow, in October : o N. Townley, paid . ' , 0 Chester Armstrong, paid . : 0 S. Brown, paid. ' 15 N. Dean, paid. s 5 0 Samuel Upton, paid 5 3 0 A, Campbell, paid 5 : 0 D. Landon, paid. 7 ; 50 K. Landon, paid . 3 : 50 William G. Brown, in October. 0 E. Quigley, in October. : 0 Cement to Menp Eartuen anp GLAss Wanre.--This cement sold about the coun try aS a great secret, is nothing more than,' shellac melted and drawn into sticks. Heat the article a little above boiling water heat, and apply a thin coating on both surfaces ot the broken vessel, and when cold it will be as strong as it was originally.