. H. BIBB AND J.T, HOLLY, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. "VOICE OF THE FUGITIVE -- Every other Thursday at Windsor, C. W. DBWNES. ONE DOLLAR annum, always in advance.' No subscription will be received tor aless term than six months. Advertisements, not exceeding ten lines, inserted four times for one dollar. Every subsequent insertion 25 ee AGW AS. CANADA RED ua ners ture D. Hotchkiss and Levi Foster. Sandwich, Israel Campbell, Cuarnam.--Andrew Sith, Dawn Mitus.--George Cary. * Toronto.--J. T. Fisher. Micaigan.--J. F, Dolbeare, Raisin. Francis King, Flint. Dr. urnes, Owasso. Chester Gurney, Centreville. 'B. P. Foster, Genesee. fLuiNo1s.--Mr. Eastman, Chicago. Rey. Mr. Miller, Aurora. Dr, L. Hale, Dundee. Massacuusers.--R, F, Walcut, 21, Cornhill, Boston. Mrs. W. Blukemore, Boston. J. Morse, 5, Water street, Moston. Henry Richards, Pall River, Rey. Walinm Brewster, Lowell. Rutus Elmer, Springfield. Rey, A Stockman, Worthington. W. Uerley, sorthampton. W. Fuller, Amherst, Rey. Foster, Littleyille, New Jersey.--B. P, Rogers. New Yorx.--Win. Hamed, 48, Beekman street, New York; L.C, Mutlick, 3, Sprace street ; J, N. Gluncester, 40, West Broadway; Willium Rotter' Hudson; John Miles. Albany ; John Lyle, Syracuse; George Weir. jun., Butfalo; Lewis Clark, Busti New Hampsnire.--Eilward Brackett, Dover; A, T. Foss, Manchester; Elder Brooks, Grent Pulls. " Onto.--Willinm Merrett, Maumee City; J, R. Gains, Cincinnati; Menry Dabuer, Blyria. PennsyLyanta.--Dr. Bies, William Still, Esther Moore, Philadelphia; M. R. Delancy, Pittsburg. Enavann.--Rev. Josiah Henson, London; also Rey. . H. Garnet, Dr. Pennington, and Isuac Henson, Travelling Agent; J. i. Dolbeare. 'From the New Covenant. THE SPIRIT OF REFORM. BY MRS. M. 0, GRANNIS. It is marching on, with giant stride, Through the wide extended earth ; O'erleaping the tow'ring walls of pride, Showing the fallen their heavenly birth, Telling the soul of its priceless worth, Bidding fraternal love increase, 'Till hate, with its yengeful war-ery, cease, And man in his native truth abide, *Neath the sheltering wing of Peace ! It is sweeping on with godlike powers, For strong is the arm of right,-- Startled vice at its presence cowers, Vanquished at once by all-eonquering might; While forth from the gloom of the olden night, A ray of approaching dawn is seen, Cheering pure hearts' with its promise beam, Harbinger sure of the day-light hours "Of a glorious sun-light scene ! It is flowing on, through the fields of time, © With a current clear and strong ; Bearing rich blessings to every clime,-- Filling the world with its hopeful song, As in musical cadence it floats along, Singing " Hearts weary, o'shadowed with fear, Still faithfully watching for day to appear; Brave souls, that have patiently waited so long, The 'good time is coming '--behold! 'tis here." Hartford, Con. For the Voice of the Fugitive. From an Anti-Slavery Veteran. Brother Biss,--The following interesting com- munication from Erastus Hussey, Esq., of Mar- shall, to the State Anti slavery Convention, which was recently held at Jackson, Michigan, was re ceived with cordiality, and is now forwarded to 'you with arequest that it may obtain an insertion in the Voice of the Fugitive for the benefit of 'others. Respectfully yours, A. W. Curtis. Secretary of Convention. Saline, Michigan, June, 1852. To the Convention of the friends of freedom, to be held at Jackson, on the second day of June, 1852. GENTLEMEN, : Circumstances prevent my being personally in attendance with you on this important occasion, but my feelings are with you in all your deliber- ations for the advancement of the cause of free dom, and the amelioration of the oppressed of our country. Without proper organization, no party or body of men can act efficiently ; but, with a permanent organization, efficient action, and a consistent course, however small our numbers, hayiag so high an object of attainment in view, our course, principles, and action must and will demand con-' sideration, I trust ours is not a struggle for place, but for principle--the natural inalienable rights of all men, without regard to caste or color. The cause of freedom is no longer confined to small isolated societies of men scattered through our country: it has become a national question ; it is the great question of the day ; it has taken its upright stand, and with bold front, in our national councils. The cause of Freedom or Slavery, which shall govern, must be decided ere long--whether we must submit to the degraded position of the one, or rise to the exalted position of the other, remains to be seen. Our nation hangs suspended between these two principles so diametrically opposite--vacillating with fearful uncertainty whether it will rise or fall. The action of the citizens must decide this; for if the principles of liberty predominate, our country is safe; but if slavery shall gain the ascendency, 'we pass into the catalogue of nations sunk to the -| sures, ~ oe utmost degradation; therefore let the friends of freedom play well their part; if successful, they reap their reward, if not, they have performed their duty: whether we rise or fall, let us stand by the principles of liberty. I trust that your deliberations will be careful and well digested. Our sympathies should be extended to all; foreign oppression should claim our sympathy, but the oppressed of our own land demand our decided action. Failing to be with you personally, my heart is with you in the cause of liberty and human rights, ' Erastus Hussty. Marshall, June 1, 1852. Spirit of the Anti-Slavery Press. MAINE, The Portland (Me.) Inquirer of June 24 contains an article on the long-pending controversy about the assumed position of the "Rey. J. W. Chickering, in England, which we noticed in our last. The article is in reply to along article published in the Mirror to patch up the naked inconsisten- cies of this Reyerend-still-mouth-at-home abolitionist. The Inquirer of July Ist re- views the position of the two pro-slavery parties of the country, and shows that there are no issues between them, except which one of them shall do up the dirty work of 'slaye catching with the: greatest alacrity. This point the friends of freedom perceived they would emerge to twelve years ago. NEW HAMPSHIRE, 'The Independent Democrat of July Ist, examines the position of Gen. Scott as the Whig candidate, brings out the distin- tinguishing characteristics of the man, shows him to be an available candidate, but urges the same objections to him as to Pierce for President, for he has caved in to the finality of the Compromise Mea- MASSACHUSETTS. The Liberator of June 18 contains a re- view of a late Biographie-Historical work, compiled by J.S. Loring, one of the hun- dred orators appointed by the municipal authorities and other public bodies of Bos- ton from 1770 to 1852. The author is shown to be chained to the interest of slaveholding by.the manner that he lauds such traitors' to liberty as Webster, Choate and Cushing, whilst he casts cold reflections on the " philanthropic ultraisms " of Sumner, Palfrey and Mann. The Commonwealth reviews an article in the New Orleans Picayune, on the man- ner in which the Free Soil papers .of the North received the recent movement by the Maryland Legislature, to make the pro- visions of the Fugitive Slave' Law more effective and stringent. The Common- wealth vindicates itself and other Free Soil papers from any past adhesion to the finality of the Compromise, as insinuated by the Picayune; exhibits the reasons why con- scientious liberty men must ever oppose its operations, and sums up the detestable logie by which alone its supporters must defend it, . --. ; NEW YORK. The Frederick Douglass Paper of June 24th contains an article on the relative platforms occupied by the Liberty and Free Soil parties ; examines why they can- not unite and become one party. The Liberty Party lays the axe to the root of the tree, and seeks to abolish slavery by the general Government, wherever found on the soil of the U.S. The Free Soil party temporizes, and only lops off the branches of the great evil. Hence there is a radical difference between the two. PENNSYLVANIA, The Pennsylvania Freeman of June 26th has a further account of the Quaker-scrape in Marlborough, Pennsylvania. The magi- strate before whom the cases were tried, the counsels who prosecuted them, and the complainants who preferred the charges of meeting-disturbance, acted in the -most prejudiced and illiberal manner toward the defendants. They were finally so afraid of the popular indignation that their actions were begetting, that, although the magi- strate did fine them on the charges, yet the complainants, when they found that the defendants were determined to go to gaol rather than pay the fines, raised the amount of their fines and paid it them- selves, whilst at the same time they en- deavored to give the people who were as- sembled'to hear the result of the trial, the impression that the friends of the defen- dants had raised it. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The National Era of June 24th, con- tains an article on the finality of the Com- promise, in which the platforms laid down by the late National Conventions. of the two old hunker parties are examined, and fallacy of their resolves to stop agitation on the subject, when questions relating to these measures shal] hereafter come up for shown to be identical, and shows up the| WINDSOR, C. W., JULY 15, 1852. the decision of the American people. The Era of July 1st defines its position to be an independent anti-slayery journal, controlled by no party organization, but sympathizes mostly with liberty yoting men. We sub- join the editor's own graphic summary of his position : We believe-- In the unity and common origin of the human race : In the doctrine that God made of one blood all the nations of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth : In the golden rule--'Do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you :" In the Higher Law--' It is better to obey God than man :" In Liberty as the fundamental condi- tion of Human Progress and Perfection : In Law, as the Defence, not Destroyer, of Liberty : f In Order, as the result of Liberty es- tablished and protected, not subverted, by Law: In the American Union, not as an end, but as a means--a means to the establish- men of Liberty and Justice, worthy of sup- port only so long as it shall answer these great ends : "We hold these Truths to be. self-evi- dent-- "That all men are created equal : "That they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights : "That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness : _ "That to secure these rights Govern- ments are established among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed : : "That whenever any form of Govern- ment becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Govern- ment laying its foundation on such prin- ciples and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." We hold these Truths to be applicable at all times, to all men, of whatever clime or complexion, and are therefore the un- compromising foe of all forms of Slavery, personal, political, spiritual, whether at home or abroad; and the advocate of all laws and usages having a tendency to equalize the conditions of all men, to secure to all equal opportunities for the enjoyment of liberty, acquisition of property, and pur- suit of happiness. - These are the principles that haye con- trolled and will continue to control us in conducting the National Eva, which is re- sponsible for no Party, as no Party is re- sponsible for it, owing allegiance alone to God and Humanity. uo. The Anti-slavery Bugle, in common with all of our anti-slavery cotemporaries, refers to the Baltimore platforms, and ex- presses a like for them, because they ex- hibit the pro-slavery spirit of both parties, and of the American Union, of which they are the essential elements, in an unques- tionable light, thereby saving anti-slavery men the trouble of arguing to convince candid men of the fact of their moral ob- liquity in this respect, The Church on Slavery. The Pastoral Convention of Presbyterian and Congregational Ministers, recently as- sembled in, New Hampshire, adopted the following preamble and resolution : "Whereas, it is our duty, as ministers of the Gospel, to study the mind of God as revealed in the Seriptures, and to de- clare the truth on every subject pertaining to duty; and whereas, we believe that the Bible gives no countenance, dircetly or indirectly, to the system of slavery as it exists in the U. 8., therefore, Resolved, That we regard the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 as highly objectionable and oppressive, it being, in our appre- hension, in conflict, in many of its features, with the great principles of liberty and humanity, and that we believe it to be the duty of Christians to use all lawful means to promote its repeal or essential modifi- cation." : A Conyention of Congregational minis- ters lately assembled in Mansfield, Ohio, to form « Conference for their more effec- tual co-operation, and, amongst others, the folowing resolution was adopted : Resolved, That in the judgment of this Convention, the Conference we propose to form, should hold no ecclesiastical corre- spondence with slaveholding bodies. Osureations To Liserty.--Rey John Pierpont made the following remarks in y / Faneuil Hall previous to the entrance of Governor Kossuth : " My opinion is, that we owe it to our position, as a free nation, to favor the cause of freedom in all other nations; and this at every hazard. Even War, bad as it is, is not the greatest of national evils. Better --far better--meet the perils of war in establishing Liberty in other lands, than spread an inglorious peace, however pros- perous, in propping up Slavery in our own. In settling "the balance of power " among the nations of the earth, the weight of this Nation must be taken into the account. It must be felt for or against the cause of civil liberty, We cannot be neutral if we would, as to the moral influence--that, whether we will or not, we wust exert."' Cuurcn: Action,--Eneianp.--Resolu- tions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire and South Deyon Congregational Unions : At the annual meeting of the ministers and other delegates of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Congregational Union, held in Bristol, April 7, 1852, it was unani- mously resolved--* That while the fact, of more than three millions of human beings in North America existing in a state of slavery, is in itself considered one of the most deplorable evils which our fallen world exhibits, our lamentations on account of it are greatly deepened by the circumstance of this evil existing in a country which boasts ofits pre-eminent freedom, and the inhabitants of which are by ancestry allied toEngland. This meeting, however, regards as the yery worst feature of the case the fact, that the main bulwark of American slavery is the support it derives from per- sons who profess attachment to the religion of Christ. The Bristol and Gloucestershire Congregational Union, therefore, deem it right again to record their determination to hold no religious intercourse with visitors from the U. S. who are not decided enemies to slavery." At the annual meeting of ministers and delegates belonging to and forming the South Deyon Congregational Union, held at Plymouth April, 22nd, 1852, the follow- ing resolution was cordially and unani- mously passed :-- "That this Union, considering the enor- mous evils connected with the system of that system is upheld by many Transatlan- tic churches, feels called upon to mark its special indignation at the outrage thus practised on the rights of human nature, and the sentiments of our common Chris- tianity ; and it hereby repudiates all kind of fraternity with such ecclesiastical com- munities, until they shall have cleared themselves from the guilt herein de- nounced, and so far redeemed the charac- ter which must appertain to all* Christian churches worthy of the name of Him who came to ' unbind every yoke, and to bid the oppressed go free.' " The following remarks, made by the Rey. William Owen, at the late meeting of the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society, held in London, is manly and out-spoken, and must commend themselves to 'every true Christian for their uncompromising Gospel tone; but they are bitter pills, we know, to many D.D.'s whom we could name. "We will not, for all the friendships which may be tendered by tlie U.S., act in a manner unworthy of the land to which we belong--a land in which true liberty finds her dearest home, and on whose shore the oppressed, from every clime, feel that they haye escaped from the lash of the oppressor, The decadence of England has been set down as a positive fact by an en- vious scribe of another land, and a coun- tryman of our own has indulged in eloquent anticipation of the day in which an artist, from New Zealand, shall, from the last re- maining arch of one of our bridges, sketch the ruins of St. Paul's, But, in the Jan- guage of a still greater fellow-countryman, who has enriched our tongue, and assisted tu make it the language of the world and of all time-- Naught shall make us rue, If England to herself do rest but true. Among the means of perpetuating the true greatness of England, we will be watch- ful for the interests of liberty and humanity throughout the world. If patriots come to us from the scenes of glorious conflicts, though not yet victorious--tfrom Italy, like Mazzini, from Germany, like Kinkel, and Ronge, and Bruge, from Hungary, like the illustrious Kossuth--they shall have the loudest greetinus and kindest sympathies we can give. Iftyrants seek refuge here, even from the effects of their own tyranny --a king without a crown and anxious to save the head which was unworthy to wear it--a despot, the hearing of whose deeds of blood has filled us with horror, and who | American slavery, and the extent to which | 5555s, is cast out as the offscouring of his coun- try--he may hide himself in undisturbed security, but he shall receive no honors from our functionaries without the stern protest of an indignant people. ~~~ "Tf the true Abolitionist come from the United States, we will embrace him-as a brother, and receive him with 'double honor' for his work's sake--receive him to our homes as a guest--if a Christian, to our churches as a member--if a speaker to our platforms as an orator--if a preacher, to our pulpits, that there, as in his own land, he may 'proclaim the acceptable year ef the Lord, deliverance to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.' But, if there come from the same land a slayeholder, or an apologist for sla- very, or one who has never known at home as a fellow laborer among the friends of the slave, and for the sake of good fellowship, suddenly profess his conversion: --adoubtful, temporary conversion--to the cause of the slave, ora delegate duly authorized by an infected Society, Bible, Missionary, Tract, or Sunday Seliool Union, we will use no harshness, we will not forget our common Saxon origin, we will not reject' the hope that the Anglo-Saxon, and Americano- Saxon races are yet to be united in glorious labors for the regeneration of the world-- but we will be faithful; our 'secret love' shall not prevent our faithful rebuke. Our hands, our pulpits, and our platforms shall e closed against him--but we will open our lips and they shall utter the truth of God ;_ we will say to one and all of them, go back to your land of boasted freedom, and 'loose the bands of wickedness, undo the heavy burdens, let the oppressed go free, break every yoke, deal thy bread to the hungry, bring the poor that are cast out of thy house, hide not thyself from thine own flesh. Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy health shall spring forth speedily, thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the Lord shall be thy reward,' " me he Seventeen Yxar, Locusrs.--As was predicted last. year the seventeen year loocusts have made their appearance in Connecticnt. In 1818, and in 1835, their presence ona lot of land about 50 rods square, some three miles from the North Glastenbury post-office, is chronicled, The woods on that spot are now alive with their -- music. ' : Aw Ancient Tren.--The old oak, beneath whose branches Eliot preached to thie In- dians, at South Natick, in 1690, is still standing--a "hale green tree," and still affords a grateful shade to weary travelers, A neat monument has been erected to the memory of Eliot near this place,. which bears on one side his name, and on the other the title of his Indian Bible--« Up Bibtum God." : We find the following in an exchange, but do not know on what authority it is given ; The " Church of our Saviour," on Spar- row Hill, Moscow, desigued as a thank offering to God for the discomfiture of the French in 1812, ts slowly but steadily lift- ing its enormous head, which is to rise, in its central dome, to the prodigious height of over eight hundred feet above the founda- tion. The length of the edifice is nearly six hundred feet, and is flanked by towers, each three hundred feet high, in which are set in regular succession, the cannon left by the French army in its vreat defeat. Tre Hiener Law.--We are all born in subjection, all born equally, high and low, governors and governed, in subjection to one great, immutable, pre-existent law, prior to all our devices, and prior to all our coutrivanees, paramount to all our ideas, and all our sunsations, antecedent to our very existence, by which we are knit and connected in the eternal frame of the. uni- verse, out of which we cannot stir. This great law does not arise from our conventions or compacts; on the contrary, it gives to our conventions and compaets all the force and sanction they can, have ; it does not arise from our vain institutions, Every good gift is of God; all power is of God, and He, who has given the power, and from whom alone it originates, will never sufler the exercise of it to be practised npon any Jess solid foundation than the power itself-- Burke, . Novurne 1s Losr,--The drop that min- gles with the flood, the sand dropped, on the sea shore, the word you have spoken, will not be lost. Each' will have its. influ- ence, and be felt till time shall-be no mgr Have you ever thought of the effect that might be produced by asingle word, ne it pleasantly among a group, and it wil make a dozen happy, to return to their homes and produce the same effect on a hundred perhaps. gh A bad word may arouse the indignation of a whole neighborhood ; it may ae like wildfire, to produce disastrous effects, As no word is lost be careful how you speak, Speak right, speak kindly.