~ =e WLVDSOR, CANADA WEST: THURSDAY DECEMBER 2, 1852. rd = Extend the Circulation. 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, To Postmasters and Subscribers. For all subscribers in the United States, the Voice of the Fugitive is mailed in Detroit Mich. So that Wes should be no more to the sub scribers inthe States than it would if the paper Wus published in Detroit. %,% Bditors and publishers are hereby respect: fully requested to mail our exchanges to Windsor, Canada West, or Detroit, Michigan, as we have now moved our office from Sandwich to Windsor which is directly opposite to Detroit on the Ca- nada shore, Treasurer's Report for the Refugee?s Home. Money collected by Rey..C. C. Foote in Massa- ehusetts, -, - - - - = $8,70, 34 From Mary A. Gates, Lebanon, Madison Co, Mar ue aos - - - 1,00 Total - - - 8,71, 84 H. Hartocg, ele Treas. Refugee's Home Society. $a" The Society has just purchased another beautiful tract of land, about 12 miles east of Windsor, of which we shall speak more at large, hercatier. Letter to my old Master. . No. 4. Mn. Acoert G. Srprzy + Sir, As I have now waited patiently for your an- swer to my letters of interogation respecting your slave holding, christian selling, and sheep steal- tug character, and at the same time allowing your name to be enrolled on the class book of the M. E. Church, as a leader among that body of professed christians--I confess that I have heen a little disappointed at your very singular defence, which has been only an unbroken silence, Perhaps you have had the vanity to think that in this way you could shield your official char- acter, and slave holding church, from the execra- tions of the christian public; but yain is your hope: the subject is not yet exhausted, neither nre the leaders of the M. E. Church, to be allow- ed to separate husbands and wives, and to sell their ministering brethren with impunity into perpetual slavery as you have done. To be silent when we know that class leaders are suparating ministers of the gospel from their wives, and selling them to soul drivers into per- petual slavery: to be silent when we know that the church south denies the legality of marriage among their entire slave population : to be silent when the Holy Bible, is withheld and not allow- ed to be taught or read by the enslaved millions ef the south: to be silent when we know that Female virtue is trampled in the dust with im- punity, and the church of God refuses to lift her voice against this iniquity, and when hundreds of se]f-emancipated slaves are fleeing annually to Britian's shores for refuge, and when the appeals ef outraged humanity are thundering like an earthquake to us on every "southern breeze," would be to connive at your sin and be false to the claims of humanity-- Now the only defence that slave holders as a general thing pretend to offer for such conduct is, that the slaves can't take care of th emselves, and that they would suffer if emancipated. Inreply to this pro-slavery logic, I would say that you have po right to be a slave-holder under any circum- stance whatsoever. The religion which you profess forbids it ; tbe light of civilization with her mil- lion echoes forbids it, and the voice of God has ever been to " break every yoke and to let the oppressed go free" and how can man with all of the instincts of his own soul arrayed against slave- ry resist the appeal? But there is another de. mand now pressing upon my time so that I must be necessarily be short. In conclusion let me inform you that Canada is a great country--Great in its extent of Territory, comprising about 346,962 square miles, being about six times the size of England, and Wales,~--It is also great in its agri- enltural, commercial and mineral resources. The soil and climate of Canada West, is now uniyer- ciully acknowledged to compare favorably with the most fruitful portions of North America, and is well udapted for the rearing of ladies and gentlemen, christians, and phlilanthropists of the first ordsr, But the best of all, it is under an anti-slavery Government, which affords an effer- tnal refuse for the American slaves: it is the home of Granville, John and Lewis, who fled from your custody in search of liberty, about four months ago. They are all here, each one, thank Gor] is now the owner of his own farm within eight miles of alargecity. Should you or any of the slave population in that vicinity feel disposed to visit its, I will instruct you in my next letter how te come on the underground rail road; that ix if a I don't hear from you soon: and I shall by the grace of God, ever remain true to the cause of down trodden humanity. H. BIBB. Our Pro-slavery Antagonist. W. ©. whose pro-slavery propensities we have been exhibiting before our readers, comes out in another article published in the "Oak" of the 19th ult. upon the "Reverends" and "Esquires" who are coming to Canada with a sable skin. In the first place he seems to intimate that such affixes and suffixes should not accompany the name of colored men; and considers the use of them as indications of great ,self-importance in the social scale, Our opponent could not have shown plain- er his ignorance of the courtesies and isages of respectable society than the con- struction he wishes to place upon tlie sig- aificance of such titles. Eyery man of common sense in this enlightened and progressive age knows that though titles sometimes mark a conven- tional position in society, yet they never letermine the true measure of the real in- dividual worth of anybody in the social fabric. 'For such a purpose they have long since become obsolete terms. And the general purpose of using them in de- cent society at the present time, is to mark the ciyilities of personal intercourse. True such usages are unkrfown among the class with whom W. C. is qualified to associate with. The ruffian terms of ' Drunken Bill, 'Blink-eye Sam,' and 'Red-nose Tom' adorn the vocabulary of their social con- gratulations, And it is only among the better class of W. C's,, race that the former terms are ap- preciated and understood. Butas a gener- al thing among that race of people, whom W. C. has made it his business to revile and calumniate, no matter how poor or de- based, there can be found individuals pos- sessing an affability of manners, and ex- hibiting a comprehensive conception of the usages of polite society that would grace the most select assemblages in the Tuiler- ies and Elysee of Paris. And for such rare qualities we may look in vain among any other race of people, who haye been placed under similar circumstances of de- basin oppression; and we therefore safe- ly challenge comparison. In the second place W. C. seems to be much astounded at the fact that these black Reycrends and Esquires can discriminate between the treatment due to men from that due to brutes; and he works himself up into frantic ecstacies, because thay have the manliness to complain of, and rebuke clownish brutality meted out to them in a country where they are strangers. W. CO, if he knows anything ought to remember that marked hospitality to strangers is the countries, and even some barbarous and savage people regard it asa high religious duty, And when men who understand this, meet with the contrary usage, it may ve expected that they will exhibit the guilty parties, no matter who they may be, before the indignant gaze of the ciyili- zed world, W. C. refers to the entree of that noble man the Rev. S. R. Ward in the province, and quotes from his published account of the same wherein. the Rey. gentleman bit- terly complained of hard usage on board of Canadian steamboats carrying the provin- cial mail. And after quoting this article adds that a white man fleeing from one country to another, would not be particular about what kind of accomodation he got, whether the bottom of a waggon or the hold of a vessel. We admit the fact when men of the ilk of W. C. are escaping be- cause they are generally criminals against the laws of God, and a disgrace to the sta- tutes of humanity--hence such should very naturally seek to hide their guilty heads from the light of day. But Mr. Ward came here as the impersonation of a great principle--the defender of the higher law of God and the sacred rights of humanity against the tyrannical edicts of inhuman despots ; therefore he had no conscientious admonitions of guilt, to smite his manly bosom 'with, to cause him to skulk in the bottoms of waggons and down in the holds of vessels, as would be neces- sary for the friends of W. C. who deserved to be hung. W. ©. goes on further to speculate about the probable figure that Mr, Ward would ent in England. He need not have taken the trouble to conjecture, about how Mr. Ward would be received in England, for we can inform him that Mr. Ward is an accomplished gentleman, the friend, asso- ciate, and co-laborer of such noble men as George Thompson, Gerrit Smith, Lewis Tappan and Wm. L. Garrison, and this fact would be a passport for him to such res- pectable society in England, in the presence of whom W. C. would hold down his ple- beian head. Mr. Ward has a cousin in England in the person of the " black" Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, who is the cham- pion agitator throughout the United King- dom in favor of the differential duties abol- lished in 1846. And a few years since he had a friend and associate who travelled throughout England, Ireland and Scotland, in the person of Frederick Douglass Esq., pre-eminently styled the ' American Slave,' whose superior accomplishments gained him admission among the best society, and procured him the distinction of haying his bust placed among those of the world's greatest men in the Royal Exchange, Lon- don; and his narrative translated and cir- culated in France and Germany, And again, Mr. Ward has a friend and fellow clergyman in the person of the Rev. J. W. C. Pennington, a fugitive slaye, who has had the honorary degree of D. D., confer- red on him by Cambridge University England, and Heidelburg University, Ger- many. But it is useless to enumerate : a dozen cases could be cited where men who have been reared in slavery, by their rare talents and accomplishments pro- cured them the highest social distinctions in England. Whilst W. OC. knows that men of his calibre, have not the qualifica- tions to mingle in society at home, be- yond the precincts of the Seven Dials. Hence his hatred of our race--a hatred thank God as impotent to accomplish his purpose, as his own teeming breath to in- flame the world with a destructive confla- gration. P.S. Since the above was written, we understand that W. C. our pro-slavery calumniator, who has been seeking notorie- ty on a small scale, (through the columns of the Canada Oak) has fallen into what the drunkards call a trance ; and while in this state the poor unhappy fellow com- menced, talking, and thus exposed his secret folly before a stranger, who happen- ed to be in at the time. Perhaps we should not give publicity to these words as they were spoken by our adversary while ina trance, but some of it is too good to keep. It seems that our poor narrow minded opponent had just been reading to the stranger and his own wife, an article pub- lished in the spacious columns of the Oak, which he was vain enough to suppose to greatest pride of christian and civilized|be unanswerable because he had written it against the Editor of the Voice of the Fugitive in particular, and the colored people in Canada at large. On this occasion, he resembled much the fable of " Adsop's Frog," who ina foolish at- tempt to swell himself up as big as an ox, bursted. But in the time of this display of bombast, in stepped the little son of this self-styled Editor of the Oak, (as will seen by his own words hereafter,) and handed his father alate: copy of the Voice of the Fugitive, in the columns of which he fixed his eye upon an article under the caption of " A Pro-slavery Calumniator," in reply to his impudent letter. In this article his real character@yas fully exposed. Jt was therein shown that he was not only a drunkard, a profane swearer, and a sabbath breaker, but a disgrace to the business which he follows for a livelihood. Hence it was well for the character of the Oak, that his name did not appear to the let- ters in question. But in reading our article before the stranger, he raved and swore, and ordered his wife to send and get him some whiskey, She told him no that this would only make the Fugitives' words true--so she handed him lis snufl-box, and he snuffed, and snuffed, and raved and snuffed until he fell into a trance, and while in this state he said, " O, how silly Lam!" The pro- prietors of the Oak, are only making a tool of me: I am not only setting their type, but setting myself up as a target to be shot at by negroes, through the press ; and in point of fact, I am the main editor of the Oak, and yet I get no credit for it a at all, and but very scanty pay. I repre- sent myself as being a correspondent at Colchester, while Iam living here in Wind- sor: I have signed my name W. C., when it should have been W. W----. I ama disbeliever in God or the Devil; in Hell or Heaven; and through a_ personal prejudice against the Editor of the Voice, and the colored population generally, I haye done all in my power to propagate this spirit among the readers of the Oak ; but I find it is' had to kick against the pricks." My vocabulary is about exhaust- ed, and I have not made one convert to my views among the whole 250 readers of the Oak, and who are becoming disgusted with the paper, because of its being filled week after week, with this stuff." His face was then immersed with rum, and the poor fellow revived again, Local Matters. it# The African M. E. Church Wind- sor, is now up, and the carpenter is putting on the shingles. The Trustees of this chureh have sent out several agents to col- lect funds for the erection of this house, among whom was John Jackson, George Johnson and John White: and none of whom it seems have acted stictly honest in their agency but Mr. John White. He had been out but a short time before he returned with suficent means or neaily so to finish off their house, which we suppose will soon be done. te We trust that our readers will not think hard of our occupying so much space in replying to a pro-slavery correspondent of the "Oak," as it has been with an anonymous writer, whose only aim seemed to be to spit out his malignant prejudice against ourself and the colored people in Canada generally, and not to defend the position which he first assumed, we shall consider him for the future unworthy of our attention. A man who will devote his pen to slang, blackguardism and lies, is not worth the ink which we have shed from our pen in reply, as our time and amunition can be much better employed than shooting at such small game. Rey. Joun Scostn or Exauanp.--We understand that this worthy philantropist has just arrived with his family, and will soon take chatge of the Dawn Institute, where a college is to be opened for the instruction of colored youth and others, in whieh we have reason to believe that Mr. Scoble, will stand as a living monument of liberty, and the equal rights of all men without regard to color, We wish them abundant success. Progress or Escarr.--Our anti-slave- ry readers must not think that because we don't report every week how many fugitives arrive in Canada; giving names, dates &e., that the " Under-ground railroad" busi- ness is suspended by the operation of the Fugitive Slaye Act, not so--the cars are- making their regular trips, and land- ing their passengers here almost every day, who come with cheerful hearts, leaving the condition of slavery behind; and the slavehunters are frequeutly seen and heard howling on their track up to the Detroit River's edge, but dare not venture over, lest the British Lion should lay his paw upon their guilty heads, ' Baz More laborers are still wanted for the rail road near Windsor, and the work is progressing. It is decided at last, we understand that the termination of this road is to be just below Windsor, opposite the Michigan central rail road depot. tat This is the second day of Dec. and yet there is no ice in Detroit river, or signs of the close of navigation--Steamboats are running from Detroit, to Buffalo every day, and the " Plough Boy" runs from here to Chatham, every other day. Rev. Robert Robinson and family, late of Hamilton, have just arrived in our village, and taken a residence in the house formerly occupied by Mr. Haggerty, where Mrs. R. has opened a select school for Females, and will teach reading, writing, arithmetic, geography &., &e.. she will also teach needle work, drawing and mu- sie, on the Piano-forte on reasonable terms, commencing her first quarter Dec. 1st-- We had the pleasure of attending meeting last sabbath evening in the brick school room of Windsor, where Mr. Robinson, preached a very interesting sermon, In behalf of the inhabitants of Windsor, we bid this family weleome among us with an earnest wish that they may be blessed and prospered in their labors of love. RB We call the attention of our read- ers to an article from the Pennsylvania Freeman, in another column in which the question of aiding the fugitives in Canada is impartially examined, and the miserable caucus of prejudiced individuals, who oc- easionally hold their midnight assemblies in the Barracks, are exhibited in no very enviable light before the world. We published a similar article in our last issue from the pen of T. Henning Esq. of Toronto, the latter part of which it wil} be seen is quoted by the article from the Freeman. We trust that those prejudiced zealots, will feel sufficiently rebuked, so as never again to seek public notoriety: but hide. their diminished heads in ignominy and shame. PROSPECTUS of the third Volume of the Voice of the: Fugitive. The Voice of the Fugitive now ap- proaches the close of its second volume, It has been regularly issued hitherto once every two weeks and sent to subscribers at the low price of one dollar per annum. This paper was started immediately after the passage of the atrocious fugitive slave bill by the Conuress of the U. 8. when thousands who had hitherto reposed in security, had to flee for refuge to the free soil of Canada, under the protection of the British flag. By that outrageous enact- ment British North America, became em- phatically the only" safe retreat of the Africo American race from chains and slavery north of the gulf of Mexico. And Canada, where thousands are gathering by a lonely exodus from the land of bond- age, is to be their grand rallying point and the cradle of their future development, As a harbinger and exponent of this great movement we feel providentially called to labor through the mighty influence of the press. By its clear and unmistakeable testi- mony, we wish to hurl back upon the ac- cursed institution of American Slavery, the indignant Voice of the thousands of its escaped victims who are now developing themselves under the genial influence of civiland religious liberty. In the second lace we desire to combat the pro-slavery influence that the proximity of the U.S, to Canada, is disseminatmg here amongst an apt class of aping disciples. And in the third place we desire to reverently study out the plain path of duty ineum- bent upen our unfortunate race, in the vew circumstances in which we are placed here, and to fearlessly point it out to those with whom and for whom we labor, accord-- ing to our highest conscientious convic- tions, irrespective of the frowns and favors. of any who may feel rebuked thereby. The faithful pursuit of these ends will. necessarily gain us enemies on ail sides. Inthe first place the pro-slavery propa- candists in the States, in the second place: their pro-slavery echoes in Canada, and in. the third place the treachery and jealousy of the unfaithful portion of the colored eople themselyes. But such opposition we know to be an. inseparable incident of all laudable under takings, and we are willing to meet it, if the friends of the Slaves in the States, and Canada, together with the faithful portion of the colored people will lend us their support in this arduous undertaking. In order to equip ourselves for a more effectual contest in the great battle of liber~ ty and equality, we intend at the com». mencement of our third volume to enlarge the "' Voice," and issue it weekly. In order to justify ourselves in this alter- ation the price of subscription will be $1,50 for one year, or $1,00 for six months pay- able in advance. If not paid within three months from the commencement of sub- scription $2,00 per annum, and $1,25 for six months. Clubs of 4 persons subseribe- ing together will be furnished with 4 copies. for $5, 8 persons with 8 copies for $8. Subscribers in Windsor and Sandwich, C. W. and Detroit Mich. who wish the: paper to be left at their residences will be charged 25 cts. additional to these rates. Subscribers who are in arrears for their previous subscriptions are respectfully re- quested to pay up the same without delay in order that we may commence the new year with clear books, Address, Biss & Hotty, Detroit Michigan, or Windsor, C. W. Publications. SCOBIES CANADIAN ALMANAC. --We have received a copy of this sterling publication for 1853. Besides the usual astronomical calcula- tions, it contains a valuable compend of useful and interesting statistical matter. The tariffs of Great Britain, the U. 8 Canada, Nova Scotia, and the other pro~ vinces ave among its most useful compila~ tions. But what especially commends it to every inbabitant of Canada, is the vati- ous statistics it contains of almost every thing that pertains to Canada. No family should be without it. We believe it can be obtained in this village at the stores of J. McCrae and J. Brown. Pimosoruy or Heatru.--tThis is a comprehensive volume by L, 1. Coles M. D. Boston Mass. in two parts; the first part setting forth the natural principles of Health and Cure without drugs ; and the second part exhibits the beauties and de- formities of Tobacco using, 'The whole fills over 400 octavo pages. The author places the subject of health upon the truly philosophical basis of correct habits, prop- er dicting in eating and drinking, and regu- lar exercise. Ruin, Tea, Coffee and Tobac-