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While walking down in yonder glen, I found a sufferer there,-- Homeless and chilly, sick and poor, Whose look was all despair. *Twas ina damp.cold basement room, In wretched tatters clad, I saw her, and four famished babes, *Twas all the home they had. I shrunk from such a love lorn scene, And started for relief. I shrunk,--not that I did not feel,-- No, 'twas excess of grief. In one recess an infant laid, More famished than the rest, Whose moans a cruel world upbraid,-- Tis wan, pale looks and dress, I saw, and it unnery'd my heart, Disease in that pale face ; The limnings of parental guilt, Stared out in bold disgrace, A father's and a mother's crimes Too plainly revelled there ; Their guilt besotted, and their crimes Re-born, had centred here, It was hereditary woe That writh'd and suffered there ; For shame and hide, less human things Who thus beget despair. Three other wretched children sat Upon a pile of straw ; They call'd it bed, but such a bed, A happy child ne'er saw. 0, then, I thought, if I'd the power Of regulating war, T'd oyerset the demi-john, And soon close up the bar. Td such pugnacious combat wage-- No drop of liquid fire, No jug or dram shop, ll engage, Should 'ere escape its ire. O, then, T wanted power, and said, If I could make the law, T'd soon turn back that fire to bread, And starve the still-worm's maw. No licenses I'd ever give, And no hotel or bar, Not for a single hour should live, That don't upset the jar. Ten thousand famished, uprais'd hands And eyes implore our ard; Oh, hear us, ye who make the laws, An' give them back their bread. Give back to comfortless distress-- Give back, they shall be fed. Oh hear us, ye who make the laws, And doom that still-worm dead. Saran ANTOINETTE. Amberstburgh, April 9th. CORRESPONDENCE. FROM JOSEPH MORRISON. No. 2, Mr, Eprror,--In my first number J alluded to colored emigration, and to Canada as a safe loca tion, I wish now to say a few words respecting your position as a pioneer in an enterprize, than which, one of deeper and more abiding interest to those concerned --THE ELEVATION OF A PEOPLE --can scarcely be conceived. My object is not to dictate to you and your co-adjutors any definite course of action, but to contribute my mite to the moral forces which are giving an impetus (irresistible may it prove to be) to that enterprize Tam aware of the arduousness of your labors, and the high responsibility of the position you now occupy, and the querulousness and opposition of many whom you labor to improve; and that op- position stimulated by inimical efforts of haters of your race, This opposition, it is apprehended, will not be surprising to any who take an intelli- gent view of the subject. It is estimated that, at this time, there are in these States nearly a half million of nominally free colored people, the condition of a large pro- portion of whom is miserable in the extreme. Public prejudice, like the fabled Hydra with its hundred heads, darting their forked tongues and poising their enyenomed fangs, charged with the deadly virus of human hate and hissing slander, is out against them in all the dire energy of irrespon- sible and resistless tyranny. As I glance over their history, I see them in the Southern States, on application for honest employment, spurned from plantations by proprietors and overseers, and driven, like stray dogs, from place to place, u even in the land of their nativity, they have not where to lay their heads, I see them, in their social devotions, starting wildly from their knees, and flying in the agony of despair from the lacer- ating whip, wielded now by a private individual, and now by an officer of the law. I see them arrested on the false charge of being runaway slayes, and then sold into perpetual bondage to defray the fees of such arrest. Isee females dis honored and polluted by tyrant lechers, and that with impunity, for colored testimony avails nothing against white persons. I see them persecuted, imbruted, crushed,--but, ah! my soul sickens, and I turn with loathing from the painful and disgust ing spectacle. I turn to the North, and there I see the colored man repelled in his efforts to take a stand upon the platform of our equal manhood. Public pre- judice closes the school house and college doors against him; the social circle repels him; the steamboat and railroad car repel him; State legis: lative enactments repel him; the Colonization Society repel, and would expatriate him to a land of moral darkness and premature physical death ; all things in these States, saye anti-slavery in- fluences, repel him, Exceptions are few and far between. A sad picture! The heayens grow black, and the-moral hosizon is overcast with an impenetrable gloom, save one aperture through which the North Star throws a cheering, inviting beam to light the footsteps of of the oppressed to a land of civil liberty and political equality. Of such a people, depressed, illiterate, despised, out- raged from time immemorial, what can be ex- pected during the first essays to prepare them to "act well their part" ina well organized com munity. No marvel that untoward occurrences often reniJer your (I mean you and your coadjutors both in and out of Canada) task an ungrateful To bring order out of this wild chaos--to construct a moral and political edifice out of such discordant materials, whose proportions shall be comely, and whose structure enduring, is truly an undertaking that might test the benevolence of a Howard, the patience of a Job, and the arm of a Hercules. But, the radical man, of a well balanced mind, delights to explore the field of first principles; to carry them out to their ultimate consequences he ardently desires; to make progress in giving them embodiment in living specimens of an advancing humanity, is to him a "feast of fat things" which nerves his arm for conflict and sustains it through a succession of victories to the desired consumma- one. tion, The public eye is upon the pioneers of this enterprize, The blinking monster--caste-begot- ten prejudice--turning her rayless eyeballs to- ward the dusky future, predicts discomforture. Let the slaveholding tyranny of this Republic rave until its howlings shall rebound from her northern hills; yet the voice of truth and merey shall be heard above the din. " Strike ye oppressed of my people, strike for the right." An unwaver- ing, vigorous perseverence in the prosecution of your great undertaking, with that humble depen- dence which is so characteristic of the truly great, --your " weapons not being carnal,'--will eventu- ally surmount all opposing obstacles. Shall the finger of Providence, pointing through the lumbering machinery of a conglomerated op- position, indicating to the colored people, at once, the necessity of their exodus from the States, an? the land of their rest, be unheeded by them; and more especially by the more prominent and lead- ing portion of them? Let the mass be persuaded to rise above the petty feuds and envyings that too often retard the progress of rising communi- ties, and the work of reform will be half accom- plished. Let them do this, and the blessings of yet unborn millions will rest upon their memory in a propitious future. Josernu Morrison. Pontiac, March 80. Voice from Indiana. Wabash, April 12. Mr. H. Brss, Sir,--The Fuyitive is again coming re- gularly to time, for which Iam well pleased, and I am in hopes that it will so continue, so long as it is identified with the interest of the neglected and oppressed ; nor would I be deprived of its contents for three times the amount of its subscription. The colored WINDSOR: C. W,, APRIL 99, 1852, VOL. IL NO, 9 man or woman who refuses to take it (pro- viding they read) is recreant to the best in- terest of those it should be his duty to serye, Your correspondents, in a general way, take the right view of things, and manifest a manly spirit in osing the dishonesty of all who w y Violate the laws of rectitude and and I hope they will continue to hunt them down with unsleeping vigilance, and the public scorn and execrati men. 8. R. Ward. is of and takes the right view « from his pen always meets with a hearty welcome. Iam also pleased to see that the number of your correspondents is in- creasing, it is an evidenee that the people are waking up to a sense of their duty, and disposed to give their thoughts publicity whenever they are of public utility ; nothing can be more commendable, The spirit of the colored people should be upward and onward ; their motto should be, freedom to investigate, fréedom to inquire, freedom to act, to think, or embrace whatever doc- trine or modus operandi not inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the Government; they should be ever ready to maintain, regardless of the frowns, the anathemas or denunciations of the negro- hating politicians of the present day, re- gardless, too, of illiberal, proseriptive and partial laws, which have been enacted in this boasted independent government by demagogical leaders and legislative assem- blies; the colored man should go forth with a manly independence in defiance of all combinations that have been formed, since the adoption of this Government, to keep in check his political and intellectual advancement ; he should spurn submission, he should accede to no overtures short of equal and exact justice toall; and slow as all those means seem to advance our in- terest, it is certain that time and persever- ance will remoye all those obnoxious: fea- tures so tenaciously maintained by our enemies. Keep before the p:ople the im- portance of educating their children; let them inculcate into the minds of the young the importance of yirtue and sound moral principles ; teach them to think for them- selves, and impart to them the blessings of liberty, and in their triumphant march they will crush everything that lays the least restraint upon them. 'There is no history, of ancient or modern date, that has ever pointed out an enlightened people who tamely submitted to oppression. : Yours respectfully, A. The Underground Kailroad, Grand Rapids, March 9th. Friend Brss,--For the first time, a few days since, while in the east part of this State, I espied the " Voice of the Fugitive," of which you are Editor, and as I was formerly, while residing East, a conductor of a car on the Underground Railroad, I felt a desire to get the perusal of said paper, so that I might be able to keep track of the progress that is being made by a portion of mankind who were so unfortunate as to receive their birth in a land of slavery, and which has heretofore afforded me so much happiness in assisting to speed them on their way to a land of freedom. Respectfully yours, &e. G, J. B. Gerrit Smith. The following extract is taken from a speech delivered by this truly great and good man before the Legislative assembly of New York on the " Maine Liquor Law," in which he said :-- I repeat, I am not here to ask a favor, but to urge you as members of the legisla- ture, to do your duty, by passing the Maine Liquor Law, or a law equally valu- able for the safety and happiness of the community at large, | Sober men should be heard, for sober men are burthened.; drunkards are pau- pers, while the cost of pauperism and crime rests almost wholly on the temperance people. Itis objected that "you have no right to legislate on this matter." You haye a right and should exercise it, as the guar- dians of the people. Suppose there should be places opened where, fora given sum a man could have his hands chopped of smoothly at the wrists, and suppose some person should desire to have the operation performed, and that it should actually take place, and one after another should come out of the mill landless, without ability to perform any more labor, thus falling on the town or country fur support, would not the community ask for alaw? and would not one be granted to destroy the machinery which pauperized the people? The rumshop is the mill which chops of the hands and renders the drunkard a burden to the peo- ple among whom he dwells. I ask you to destroy the mill. It is objected also; " You haye no right to interfere with the people's desirés or legislate on what the people shall not drink." Rumselling is murder, then why not put a full end to it by passing a law prohi- biting the traflic 2 It is objected again, "the people are not prepared forthe measure." 'I'ry them by letting them have it. I believe they are prepared. if they are not, why then pre- pare them by giving them the law. It is , | Said the best way' to teach a boy to swim ig} is to put him into the water. Let us have the law and we will not ask its repeal, If you pass it, the people will rise civilly, mentally and morally, and will be' more ready for the reception of the salvation which fits the soul for heaven. This State would then become lik» that of " Maine, a temperance asylum, where a parent might trust his child without fear of his being ruined by the rum-deyil." Humanity Outraged. Another colored man has been robbed of his liberty to make the Whig administra- tion popular at the South. The New York Tribune gives the following account of this heart-rending transaction : " Tis wife went in and had her last inter- view with him, Her cries and sobs were| heard by the multitude outside. " We doubt if a more touching exhibition of the workings of the Fugitive Slave Law has ever been witnessed. 'The man's wile stood by her husband for three days, with a deyotion and tenderness unparalleled., Whenever permitted to sit near him, she had fast hold of his hand with both of hers, wringing herself in the most intense half suppressed agony. Near the time of the final separation Busteed, the lawyer, to console her, gave her an orange or peeled one for her! "About twelve o'clock the procession ap- peared from the back-room, Gen. Heury F. 'Tallmadge, U, 8. Marshall, in front; his sons, one on the right and the other on the left of the "Fugitive," and two sturdy De- puties of foreign birth behind. Eachseemed satisfied with the honorable post he was permitted to take in doing the slaveholder's work, The Fugitive was conducted out at the back-door into Chambers-st., where a covered carriage was in readiness, into which he was put. "The crowd, chiefly of colored people, rushed around, to catch their last view of their friend--some running to the carriage door to shake hands, and bid good by, some in tears, some in suppressed murmurs some calling on God to avenge the wrong, and one devotional old woman was heard erying, ' God'll punish 'em! God'li punish rem | "The carriage left at the time of writing this article. Horace Preston is back in sla- very for life. A woman robbed of her husband anda little girl four years old of herfather ! So ends the fourth Fugitive Slave case in New York." Agriculture. Sysrem.--Plan all your spring operations this month and it will save you a deal of vexation-- VV, #. Harmer. Srocx.--Look well to the stock and euard against disease of every kind. A few roots fed to the sheep will prove 'of great service, after feeding upon dry hay for months. Where evergreens are conve- nient, scatter them about their yard. They will show you at once how they appreciate them. Do not feed cows too highly, either im- mediately before or after calving. Itis a practice with some persons to teed meal to the cow just before calving. Instead of this it would be better to withold a'small por- tion of the usual food, Sprinkle a little yellow snuff or ashes oyer the backs of both cattle and switie--judiciously applied, it will do no harm, and will prove inconve- nient, to any vermin who may make a call there. Sowine Grass Srep.--Fammers, as well as other people, like to make good bargaiis. Some of the worst bargains they make is with themselves. For example--to® saye twenty-five dollars of seed they loose twenty dollars of hay or pasture. By way of experiment, and to exhibit the advanta- ges of a good supply of seed, the writer sowed in the Spring of 1850 a piece of ground to grass, at the rate of one bushel of seed to the acre, or half a bushel of clo- ver and the same quantity of timothy. In less than two months the field afforded « prodigious amount of pasturage--full twice as much through the season by estimate, as ordinary good pastures, 'The présent year, the grass was allowed to grow for hay, which has just been eut and drawn in, | (July 10 1851). and the produce was found jto be three and a half tons per acre | Where can we find a permanent pasture or meadow that will do this? 'The soil was of ordinary fertility only, or would net have yielded more than 25 bushels of corn per acre. The amount of pasturage afforded by the second growth of this grass field, fully warranted the belief that a ton anda half per acre, might have again been cut making five tons of hay to the acre in all, for one year, The hay produced where plenty of grass seed is sown, is of much better quality than where the stalks stand thick on the ground. -- my Cult, _ REE Flax Cotton has once more mado Its appearance, Specimens have been ex- hibited lately in Washington, of a very beautiful texture, prepared after the mode recommended by cheyalier Claussen. 1t Is said that it can be afforded at six cents a pound. In eight States the right of using has been purchased by several parties which ae given great impulse to the growth of ax. Mr. Ellsworth, formeily of the Patent Office in Washington and now aresident of the Wabash Valley, of Indiana, has sown five hundred acres with flax seed; and Col. Baker, of Illinois, is largely engaged both in the cultivation and preparation of the plant. West Indies. We have received advices from Port-au- Prince to March 7. All was quiet, The Dominicans were in great glee in conse- quence of the Coronation of their Emperor, to take place April 18, on which occasion a grand feast is to be given, and twenty thou- sand troops to be paraded under arms. It will be observed as a great holiday through- out the country. It is supposed that not less than fifty thousand persons will be in Port-au-Prince on that day, Out latest papers from Martinque and Guadaloupe are chiefly occupied with ad- dresses of felicitation and adhesion to the government of Louis Napoleon. The islands were in a state of tranquility, though it had been found necessary to issue very strong orders, warning the populace against suffer- ing themselves to be betrayed into any de- monstrations of feeling adverse to the recently developed views of Louis Napoleon. . The Kingston Journal (Jan.) learns with reoret that it is considered that Grey Town is likely to be made the cause of misunder- standing between Great Britain and the United States by asomewhat similar attempt being made there, to that which was made in Cuba a short time ayo, Meetings continued to be held in differ- ent sections of Jamaica, "for the purpose of taking into consideration the best means of averting the ruin impending oyer all classes of the community in consequence of the competition we are exposed to by the ad- mission of slave- grown sugar into the British market." . Stave Trape in Cuna.--We mentioned the other day among our news items, that the slave trade was still prosecuted with frightful activity in Cuba. But we had little idea of its enormous extent. A cor- respondent furnishes us statistics by which we discover that there were brought to Cuba and sold as slaves, as follows: In 1849 arrived twenty vessels with 6,575 Africans. In 1850 seven vessels with 2,325, and in 1851 seven vessels with 3,687. These are matters of documentary evidence. During the same three years accurate in- vestigation reveals an added number of 4,196, and from the brig Hanover built in New York, and delivered in Cuba last summer, 650 slaves were landed in the last week of February at Sierra Morena; and to the eastward' of Sagna la Grande, by vessels not yet known, 800, making a grand total of 18,233 slaves imported into Cuba during the last three years. And all this in contravention of the civil volity of the civilized world, in violation of the pledged faith of the Spanish nation and with the sanction of the most exalved officials of its government.--lV, Y. Tribune. jez' We who betrays another's seerets because he has quarreled with him, was never worthy of the sacred: name of friend ; a breach of kindness on one side will not justify a breach of trust on the other, Aworuer Gtoriovs Triumrn, -- On Monday evening last a public meeting was held in the City Hall, which resulted most triumphantly for the Temperance cause in this province. What renders this victory more decisive is, that the meeting was got up for the express purpose of a public dis- cussion of the great question which is ere- ating so much excitement in the neighbor- ing States and which is beginning to be agitated in this country, viz., the introduc- tion of a prohibitory law, similar to the. famous "Maine Liquor Law."--Hamilton Advocate,