Voice of the Fugitive (Sandwich and Windsor, ON1851), October 7, 1852, p. 2

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aa ---- -- -- --------_ eee THE P UG ITE fh VOICE OF WINDSOR, CANADA WEST THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1352: Extend the Circwlation- Any person who will forward to us four 'dol- lars, with postage paid, we will send to their order rive copies of the Voice, during the term of one year, | . ©o Postmasters and Subscribers. For all subscribers in the United States, the Voice of the Fugitive is mailed in Detroit Mich. 'So that the postage should be no more to the sub- -seribers in the States than it would if the paper "was published in Detroit. ¥,,* Biitors and publishers are hereby respect- fully requested to mail our exchanges to Windsor, Canada West, or Detroit, Michigan, as we haye "now moved our office from Sandwich to Windsor, which is directly opposite to Detroit on the Ca- nada shore. Letter to my old Master. sik No. 2. ~ Mr. Atnenr G, Siocery : j Sir, f At the close of my last I promisod to call your attention to this subject again--and in doing so my object is not merely to convince you that I have acquired the 'art of communicating my thoughts intelligibly on paper to be read by tyrants, notwithstanding they with yourself have done their best to keep me in perpetual bondage | and ignoranee--but it is to warn you of the preat "danger to which you are éxposed while standing "in the attitude of an incorrigible sluve holder. ~Tmean that you shali know that-tiere is a just 'God in heaven, who cannot harmonise human ; 'slaver: ry with the Cliristian religion: Imean that you shull know that there is alaw which is more Dindiug upon the consciences of slaves than that "of Congress, or any other liuman enactment--and T mean that you shall know that all, of your slayes have escaped to Canada, where they are ju 'as free as yourself, and that we have not for- "gotten the cruel treatment which we received at your hands while in a state of slavery. I haye often heard, you say thata slave who was well ' ded, and clothed, was far better off than a. 'free Negro," who had no master to nipriide for and take care of lim. Now with all candour in answer to this pro- slavery logic, let me ask who is it that takes care of the slave holders and theit famlies ? Who is it "that clears tip the forest, cultivates the Land, "whanages the stock, husbands the grain, and pre: pares it for the table? Who is it that digs from the cotton, sugar, and rice fields the means with which" to build southern Cities, Steam boats. School houses and churches? T answer that it is the slaves, that perform this labor, and yet they 'or. their children are not permitted to enjoy any of 'the benefits of these Tustitutions : your former slaves who are now British subjects, are about trying the dangerous experiment of taking care of themselyes--which, has so far :praved to be a very, successful one. Their services' are worth to them here upon an ayerage one dollar per day -they are also nttending a night School for the { (purpose of learning to. read and, write, With . the above facts before me, J am led to the conelu- _sion that the slave who can! take care of himself and master both can certainly take care of him- _relfalone, if he is only given a fair chance, Oh! tell me not then Sir, that-a man is happier and, better off in a state of chattel bondage than in a 'state of freedom. Tho idea of a. man being a -slaveof being subjected to the will and power -ofa master, is: revolting to his very nature. "Freedom to uct for onestself though poorly clad, 'and fed with a dry crust, is glorious when com: |. pared with American slavery, even if it sliould, Mee dvessed hy broad eloth, md fed with all, the luxmptes whic the human appetite could vant This right is highly appreckuted by the Lheasts of 'the fovost and the fowls of the air. terrific serecclie of the hooting night owl is animating to himself and musieal'to his kind a he goes through the tall forest, from the hill! lop, to the valley. Not so, with the miserable little sereech owl, while he is tied by the leg, or boxed. up ina cage though well fed he is made tho sport of children. 'The starUing scream. of the wild te or the roar of the lion--it is ma- jestic and independent i in they native desert. Not so when they are chained ina 7 age lo be fed by a! "Kind master," of Johnney cako, roast beef, or no beef jush as he chooses, But ny" illustra tions are inadaquiuh to diserihe SPORE and ai abhorance of shive bolding. Again Teall yourattention to the moral unt éfigrdt this subject, as if applies to yourself, You pr ss to bea ehristian--n leader in the. Mik, Omirch, and a represeniative of the' Lord Jesys Christ, aid yet you soll my mother, fron her little children, and sent them mway to a distant lyn sold iny brother George, fiom his wile [leur fittle ones, While he was a 'worlliy nem uy and Clergy nnat, of the same Church," lolg "wll nue Lelong. © Ti ourly Hite you ako cém- yell je inte, to-chuat, Jie and sfead, from your neivh- hours, You haye often made me drive up alee Dy 4 which you knew to be the property of snd Janehter them for ial ket and Ges. use woh 5 your own table. The language of Holy writ is that " thou shalt not steal," "let every man haye liis own wifo, and every woman her own Inisband," and parents are strictly required to train up their children in the fi Every one of thes willingly broken, Oh! what hypocrisy 18 this! A Methodist class leader, selling a Methodist Minister--a Methodist class leader, husbands, and wives--a Methodist cluss leader, ut and admonition of the Lord. c Ifoly injunctions you have wickedly, and seperating stealing and'slaughtering his. ne 'i@hbours sheep and hogs. Wain is your religion--base is your hypocrisy. We haveno confidence in your sheep stealing, and man robbing religion,» My brothers Granville, John, and Lewis, all unite in ¢orrobor- ating the above facts; and if you date to deny a single sword of itlet us lear from you and we will furnish undoubted proof Yours with duo respect, ii, BIBB, P. S. If you do not answer this soon you may ox pect to hear from me again, Local Matters. The hot season, which has been attended with much sickness this sunimer in Wind- sor, has now passed away and our commui- ty was neyer blessed with better' health than at the present time. The rail: road is 'still, progressing, but there will be no large buildings putup by the company in Windsor, until next spring or summer, when the demands will dowbt- less be large for brick, stone, lime and laborers. nye Messrs Charles Hunt, and Blackader, have just sold out at-auction their large 'stock of drygoods g avoceries &e and anothor gentle- man is fitung up the same stand, to com- menée business in. 'Pourrrear Marrers.--In Michigan, which is just! one mile north west of us 'tle excite- ment, is at its highest point with arecard to! the pr esidential election. "In ev ery ward of the Detroit eity, theré may be seen from fone toa half dozen hickory poles' on which: may be seen flagssuspended in favour of the election of Picrce,-or Scott, But not one in support of the cause of Impartial Liber- ty, or the -abolition of American Slavery. This. is much to, be reeretted.; Be it said to the honor of this goyern- ment that she has no, participation in; the sin of slayeholding or. slave-catching : but she makes this Jand an asylum for the fleeing bondsmen ; and her motto is that "no slave can breathe.on British soil." We attendeda meeting last evening, in Detroit, which was addressed by Gen. Wil- son of Boston,Mass, and the Hon. Joy P. Tatn,of N. H.. The mecting was. in),.the whig club room, which was: nothing like large enough to contain the vast multitude of ladies. and gentlemen in attendance. Mr, Walson spoke for. one hour, presenting, a logical cliain of argument, exposing the) pro- slavery. policy of the two great parties and at the same time presented the claims of. the Free Democracy of the country to the support of the anti-slayery public, in astyle and force seldom. equaled by any aes mati, Mr. Hatz, next "ees a atnlt the most euthuastic applaudings and held the audience on their feet who listened: with profit and delight for about two. hours longer. Any auitempt, on our, part. to dis- cribe the ability and power of this speech would prove w failure and do injustice to the speaker, . Suffice it tosay that it was one of John P. Iale's ablest efforts, which was loudly applanded by friends and foes who heard it, and one which will seeure thousands of votes for the noble standard bearer of liberty im. Michigan. We hope to see the speech reported entire, after which we shall lay it' before our readers, Prejudice againxt tho jiaiabn sens inn Canadibe An urikenawi nindividual under Pipi of "W_O,," has written,» letter in the, Ouk, of Sept, 24th, against the Refuiroes: and their Tomo" in Canada, tis' a poor mol thing, ee of of principle or ar- nent, Ve do not Sage at the writer's being ashamed to attach his nawe'to such ian ar- ticle. It is not only a maliznant, poverty stricken thrust at an unoficnding people, fleeing from a bondage which is more to be dientled than the grave; but is an insult to every respeetable white]: uly in the proyinee. After commeuting, upon the enjoreail deg: Us dation of the escapiny bondsinan trom the fields of wir oquited toil, and his Jac sapability of taking care of himself; he then taunting ly says':-- "in conclusion, that Aye well ie fact that black men willnot marry those of their own, rice if they can suecocd it bewuiling white females, is sullicient of itself ty. pro- duce: perpetual strife." Vontnp libte idea! we ask the writer of What this strifu is to consist, and. with who? Is it to be astrife between the white; and a mnen io see Who shall marry 'the white "Otis it to be astrife between virtue hand Hoa? 2 Vig: whosht all dvink the Teast Wwhiskey--work the feast in their shops on the sabbail day--avennulate the most pro- perty--take the best care of their fiunilies,' and prove themselves 10. he the Inogt Tioyanl ume SNE 1 TITRE = subjcets to ler Majesty ts ki iws ? In all that is commendable, wo have rea- son to believe that the colore d man would not be found inferior to this unknown writer. But the point to which we call special attention is that the colored men are not fit to inhabit tho samo. country--to be taught in the same: schools, or to worship God. in churehes with the whites;)¢ and-yet-these-are the men that white girls are going to make choice of for lrasbands in Canada, Now we think that this.'is put- ting down our Canadian girls alittle too low. We know of no Jaw in this province, Which compels women toaarry men whom they do not want* and if they are in the habit of malsing selections fromthe very lowest, dress of sociecty--then it is a woitderful comment upon their taste and ignovance both.-- But such is nat the. fact... This. is, aj pill made up by old Dr. Slavery, to prejudice the white people of Canada, against, the eseapeing slave mother trom the tyrant who would seize and drag her back i her little ones into, the " "hell of slavery.2> We presume that. there is no ena in Windsor, or even in this country, who is the least afraid of his daughters'. making choice of some degraded slave for a -hus- band. But Dr, Slayery, has long been Seppe up shadows. for substances. fe sl ips a- bout like a snake under, grass, biting and poisoning every one that "he can without being seen, We understand him well, and shall endeavor to keep our. eye upon the slimy reptile. € * We have. sometimes wished . thab there was alaw to prevent them from mamyiny drunkards, which would prove a great blessing to the world. Cleaning 'Teeth. This is a subject of much importance if properly. considered. Cleanlines, comfort, health, and happiness to great. extent de- pend upon it; and -yetnit is) a subject so delicate thatiit is seldom spoken of, least it should offend some who have bad teeth. What looks, worse. inva. young mnan's mouth, than a set of décayell teeth, | im- mersed in tum and tobacco juice 7). We care: not how, much. wealth,» education, talents: or, religion' he.' may possess, his company: avill be objectionable -and .offen- sive Among Ladies and Gentlemen of, te- finement if such, is the case: aud gueh persons alten render themselves). perfect |, nuisances to all-around thom: because: they do not! pay propér attention to their, teeth. Whenever a person's teeth begins to de- cay, they should be plugged ov tilled by? a competent dentist: otherwise: they shonld be extracted in order to prevent them from decaying others adjoining them, But not only so, bad teeth will wileet injuriously a Malone constitution: they will lay the foundation of diseases, which may hurry the victim. into a premature graye, What is there on the other band that looks more inviting in the mouth, of an. intelligent Lady, thana handsome set of clean tecth } q Her words will seemingly fall like the dew drops of Heaven, and her conyersation will be pleasant and sweet, to her friends when uncontaminated by the obnoxious 0- dor of rotten teeth, -- But now in order to preserve these delicate and important' or- gans, we would recommend a frequent use, of a good brush and plenty of cold water, Lot it be used every night on goiny to bed, every morning before breakfast and direct- ly after eating ! and whenever tartar' be- gins to' nceumulate on the teeth, fo to a dentist and Lave it taken off be done at least once in every year. Nothing could have a better tendency to preserve health and teoth than adlereing to this rule. James G. Birney on Colonization. Mr. Birney, has just written another Jet= ter, through. 2 Douglass' paper, in which he re-afiinns the position taken by himself on that subject, im the pamphlet, which he published in Cincinnati, last Winter-- and still rescommends the free people of color to leave their native Jand, and their enslaved brethem, for the pestilential shores of Liberia. 'The areuments used by Mr, Birnoy, in favour of this scheme, are very similar, to those used by the late Uenry Clay, of pena upon the same subject. Mr, is doubtless willing to concede a alte to a corrupt public sen- timent which is as sacred to the colored population of America, as lifo itself. To admit that we are two distinet races} and neither civilization, humanity or christian: ity are adequ: ite to subdue the vile tiger- like passions of mem so as to prevent them trom perpetnally enslaveing cach other is just whint the dovil would Lejoiee, ub t 1b is just whut the slave jholdérs and their abetters have always said and avestill Saye ing, and it is, just aviiat we do not believe, and. shall therefore continue 10 oppose, Away with your colonization argnments-- tell us-not that the white and colovad pop- ulation. opn't live together mm the same country. and even in the, same family -- wilhilo. Wi. can. sco, in tho, slave holding states, tha white men ave constantly taking colored males even by foreo for their wives, to the exelygion of the white ladies; and that alingst every other newbornshive 1S ow mulatto, We tell Americas that the time isnot far ilistan' when the sou will snot "subanit tatoaly: to ware the yoku This should | SNe ere car een aN "AF of slavery oven for his 'own father, after he arrives atethe ave of one and twenty-- and the south Ww ill yet acknowledgo her ayes ite childven and treat Hhent-as-such. Gut again w 1 taken by the patric S coultl- try, who have the} y will never voluntarily tho country that ravo thom birth, farther than Canada, or the West. Indias; -until.the last slaves free,' Letusestand like "Moses" of -old, choosing, to. suller. allliction, if needs bo witl.owr enslaved counrtyinen, rather than to enjoy tlie Republic, of Liberia,for a, sea- son. --Butywhy will My, Birney, and, other colonizationists, undertalte, to, reflect upon Omnada,.and the British, laws, im, support of their position? In Eis. pamphlet allud- ed to, He said,.that Canada, was-too cold for the colored people --But now his ehief reasons are that the same. prejudice that exist against them, in the'states, exists here also, aud. that,the white people alone, con- duct the Government of Canada. - We think that Mr, Birney, ought to know bet- ter. He sought to, know 'that we have a responsible 'Government; and, that' the colored people have a yoice at the ballot box in Canada, in. common with 'the white subjects ;and that there is nothing in the laws here to prevent a colored, man drom being. elected to, the highest office in. the gift of the people, but for.want of votes enough, wich was the only.thing that pre- v ented Lim, from being President of. the United States, in 1844. "So far as, preju- dice against color is conceined,: we tran- ple it, under our fect, and, will liveit down while. it is un-supported iby British laws. But in order that our readers) may. under- stand just what Mr. Birney, bas suid jvith retereuce,to this point, we will insert here a paragraph, from, his letter, whieh willbe hailed ) with joy;,\,by othe, "American colonization; socicty"' and, be used capital by them, to fonten their) Anti-Chii is tian scheme : iy # hd "Tt is ayprevalent opinion that. the - colored people should settle down in, Can- ada, I have many, reasons against their doing so, but chielly because a 'similar pre judice against the colored man exists there that we see here, it is but a dependency of mother government, while its own. goy- ernment, as well as the home government, Is conducted by whites. entirely. The same reasons, would: induce me, to adyise then tot to, remove, to the, British West Indies: Besides this, 100, thosd is- lands are much in debt, and if p vyment is'éVer made, 'it must, in some wily, come out' of the Tebow of the 'country, Liberivis a l¥eé republic "ATyy indépen- dence has been recognized by the princi- pal governments' of Lurope, and she has no more poltéicd? connexion with this countty than "France or England, has. {He blkek dr colored MAn has entire con, trol of thé country, white men ~ being prohibited from settling in it." We look upon the 'constitution of Liberia, as beige quite as objectional as honor t ic eolored men resolved leave as 'that Of the state of Indiania, which pro- hibitS men from settling in her Teritory, because of the olor of their' skin, which God has given them, And yet Mr. Bir- ney with all of 'his exalted notions of ore seems 10 endorse the whole of it. Danger im m Divino Wistitution. "A. correspondent, sends us the following extract from some paper which he does not name ; if seems to form a part of a ay for some newly invented pistol : 'Why, one can take 'n small revolver of this patent, with a few extra cy linders, and Maynard's arrangement for priming, and kill a regiment. Every Southern gentleman or planter, who lias slaves, should buy a do- zen of these articles." ' Ts it possible that Southern gentlemen who own slaves are obliged to provide the means of killing them at sueh a rate ? Is it possible that they have any disposition to rebel agains st thei owners, or even to attack them 2 Wehavealws ays understood Slave- ry to bea divine, or, at least, a, patriarchal istiution, and as such, of course, the per-| fection of all that is sweet and loyély in bu- man relations, Certainly we'often hear of slaves who, haying made the mistake of frec- ing themselvs, have hastened back to their old homes and their former bouds.. Ilow can these contradictions be reconciled (-- Tribune. Lucy Stone" as Spécch om Slavery. Icy Stone, of M: assachusetts, made a specchi, last Strate dy evenine, im, the City Ital, in § Syracuse, on the subject of slavery. The whole city gathored. to hear her, but only these who could wot into the hall, ids wil hers' of course. Tunireds Went, away be- cause the hull had been' filled before their atriyal.' Hers was nearer Our congeptions of angel eloquence than any we ever heard. Shia seemed to breathe upon the creat' as- sembly tho spirit. of a higher Ahan mortal sphere, Neverhaye we Known' an audience so. absolutely in the possession of the orator, She threw her voice over the assembly, and swayed it with p Pi and grief, and scorn, and indi: gnation, as if it was. the helpless pla aything of her inspiration, We sill not altempt to give any, idea of} this address. If is wpossi ble to doit... We thinkthat the Whigs aud Democrats who Ireavd. it, will teel their hands, tremble, and. heir chevlis ting re with shame, wheu they : : age yp their tickets for the represent: tives of theirseparate platforms. It is woman, or ier r on! yy who can put an audience to such a te Ay to the whole coun- 7 y, far and' near, rard any reasona- ble sacrifices yougnay be obliged: toymake, for my opportunity to' 'h ear Lucy Stone dis- courso'on slavery, or anvthing else. We have only to sa don Caprung: or Buena SLAvps, ait, ranaway slay named ' Géorge Goode and Samuel Smith, have been caught at Petersburg, Pa. They had travelled from Alabrmasby the aid-of forged papers; and vere on their way .to the North. Poor fellows ! A Stave 'Sreater Arrestep:--Reu- ben, Johnson, a free. negro, that had been for # long time past a wagon driver for Mr alg has been committed before® the police court to answer the ehh 'ge of ab- ducting the slaves of C. . Armstrong. One' Douglass, mayhap'a rari of Fred's, a trifling free necro of Jeflersonvile, stands char, ood with aiding the negro to run off,-- Louisville Courier, 24th. Gore' AT LAnat.--Reuben Winston, a free slave negro, arrested for going at large with a pass given him by Micajah Bates) and purporting to be a slave to. N, ©. Crenshaw, of 'Tanover was committed to jail until Wednesday next for further ex- amination." This old negro is 'said 'tobe the father of the notorious Fleming Win- ston, noticed by us in another place andif his boys 'are chips of the old block, it will be well to keep him*locked wp for the re- mainder of his days. A Pass THAT woutpn'r, Pass.--Datrick Johnson, a free boy from the County of Henrico, was "arrested" by the wateh-nen for being in. the street with a pass giyen him by. Messrs. Boyster & Gentry, to whom he was hired, and' for want of a register wasreaged. Yesterday morning his eertifi- cate of freedom was exhibited to the Court, who discharged him. Will gentlemen who hire frev negroes over twelve years of age never Jearn 'ti: af passes are not worth a pepper-corn,to them, as the Jaw requires each one to, have a.certificate of freedom al- ways at hand? Attention to this might saye many dollars, and much trouble. re" We wouldn't insure the happiness of w young woman w homarries a moderate drinker for ia' sixpence, / When a young woman has an, offer for marriage, let her first find out whether the offerer drinks, If aye, lethim "slide." ke When Ptolemy the second, king of Egypt, looked forth one day from his palace window, afllicted as he was.at the time with the gout, the consequence of his luxurious indulgences, and, distracted with kingly anxieties, he observed. a multitude of his lebcian swhjects reclining in festal ease, on the sandy banks of the "Nile; and dining with iminense glee and great good appetite onsuch plebeian éntertainment as they had provided for themselves. © "Miserable me!" said the'monareh, "that my fate hath not allowed me to be one of them !"" PoytsuMenr 1x Sourm Canotrya.--At a court held in Marlboro' district, South Carolina, 1 4th inst, « "Moses Knight was found guilty of cutting the telegr aph wires, and sentenced to receive thirty-nine lashes on the bare back publicly, to leave the dis- trict in ten days, and each and eyery time he is caught i in the district to receive thirty- nine: more lashes without further trial. TxypIan Payment. --The Ojibwas of this vicinity were paid their annuities at this 'place Jast Monday, and for a day) or two they were arich people. We have never witnessed a more quiet orderly gathering of this kind in the Indian country. 'There was no drunkenéss, no noise, no disturbanée of any kind? the Indians who wanted to. spend their money, bought what they wish- ed and departed for their homos im peace. There has )een almanifest improvement im this respeet as well as in the general con- duct of the Indians within a few years past . At this payment several hundred. dolars haye been laid aside for investment in land, and it seamss to be their intention to pro- vide for themselves resting places and homes against the day when their annuities will cease, and they will be deprived of even the tendér mercies and protection of the Go- vernment.--La ke Sxperior Journal. Drarn BY 1 aie ie oreeet Inquest was held in London, on the 30th inst., be- fore Dr, Wanless; coroner, over the body of Hlizebeth Garrlty, wile of Thomas Garrity, after a lengthened jnyestigntion the Jur came: to. the following decision 5 that the immiediate cause of her death was' com- pression of the brain, from the bursting of a bloodyessel, said rupture brought on by habits of intemp crance, which "the Jury believes she was» foreed into by tle con- tinual illusage of her husband. Acernent.--On Friday last, a respecta- ble farmer named Ross, of Car radoe, while driving his waggon, loaded with, labour- ers, about to work on the Great Western Rtail-Road, was thrown olf and before he could be rescued was so injured that he died immediately .

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