Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-09-23
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triEiT OF THE .N0HEIS6 PKEse 49,
The UAioa comments upon the faots, that
the friends of Gov. Seward had matters all in
their own way a. the recent Wing State Con.
Vention in New York, and that the resolutions
passed there, 60 . baH-shot further On to-
wards the ulsrs-sbolition platform than even
those Ut the late Massachusetts, Convention
Upon the subject of fugitive slaves in Cansds
and England the Uaton-says -. "a BIS
Advices from the Canadian provinces
upon which the utmost reliance can be placed
represent the blacks who are induced to leave
tnelr comfortable homes in the southern States
10 not hnd very warm welcome in what NAV
be caiied Ayperborean regions IN more senses
Than one. Many of them suffer the ssyeres Al
ETiEations and as they are quite too numerous
20 be sabsisted upon Canadian charity, and al.
ways lett penniless by their distant abolition
brethren, and themselves indisposed or un.
equal to the new labor which they must nm
dergo to obtain livelihood in their new To-
cations, IL may readily be believed that their
condition ID not OF the most enviabie character
Misled from those who would have seen than
cared for in sickne.s and in old age they are
ieft among strspgers. and must become in
tanada, Is In the free States of the Union A
source Of uneasiness to others and of degrad A.
sion to themselves, This is the result of th6
" fagf slave" experiment in Canada II
reminds Us sin3uIary Of circumstances almost
peeciseiy similar, which happened to q mum.
Der OF fugitives during the revolutionary var
the BRUSH government, with characteristic
beneVoience, during that contest, and in illus
Nration OF Its devotion to Christian hum anitv.
asoofed long And anxious}y to arouse TIA
slaves OF the South against their masters Too
successful In exciting the saysges against nm.
ofendlng whites, Of all ages and Conditions il
believed nothing would Be easier than to mt
arms INTO the hands Of the colored population
OF The South, and TO set them to work a GIVING
sHsir Ir aseers and their mastery' families pne
saey aid not succeed In their holy snt.rpriss
naH SO we'll as in their commerce With the In
disns - Very few indeed says Com Foote
In his able and useful book on 1. Af,;na .nd
ne American Flag VERY few indeed of The
shored men Of the United States ioin ed the
Lnshsn or tory party in the reyolutionarv
a: inus, ne character impressed on the
nsuon toi slavery frustrated the recorded
expectation OF those who forced this evil upon
= reluctant peppie-that the position and the
~ renee OF the negro in society would forey
cnesk re publican spirit and keep the country
In dependence.
The small number" says the same eminent
author, 'of eolored persons who did Join tn Q
English produced no slight difficulty. That
small number ought, perhaps to have been
eiShy amalsamated, soms how or other, with
Ss vas. amount OF English population. That
this did not happen, and lot seam possible. il
Fefiectly evident. Either coll. or character.
or pos,non, or something slas, which it is for
tne Enghsh to explain, prevented this. Many
OF lnem were found ia the lanes and deps OF
vice III London, without the prospect of their
e7er anna lgamating with the Londoners, and
therefore,, only combining incumbrance, nui.
sanos, ana danger by their presence there.
inns condition OF things" rays Mr.. Foote,
AS Il well Known, excited the attention and
g mpathy Of Granville Thorpe, and led to tn @
foundation OF the college OF Sierra Leone a.
refuge for them y" - 80 - =
The treatment 0ffugitiye slaves in England
was worse, II will be seen, than it ia in Canada
1he laws OF nature did their work; aud British
philanthropy protested to sympa thize with tbe
oppressed, as they are called by keeping
taem al distance Like the asoliiioni.ts in
tue Cnited States, who would emaneipats all
the blacks. of the South in q single day and
teen leave them to their fate, England fcoutd
NOT fetp IN over grown London lie fe " negroes
VINO had LETT their masters during the reVolu
nonary war, to fight agains, the colonies, bu,
sent them away among strangsrs, -
Inc IHte4.Ssncsr continuing lie opposition
10 the course Of the Southern Wings who are
IN bitter opposition to the presen. ruling in.
huences Of the Northern Wing party,.ays, -
"A, the late Wing Convention at Syracuse
political sealst G4ersd . resolution taking
radical ground against the fugitive slsve law.
out he was Kissed down and obliged to with
draw his resolution. Serped hmm =, chr Hs
should move this way and help the littIe bs nd
OF Southern malcontenr W higs who arc irving
70 break up the national party to form sec.
,ional one. To that sage and patriotic CLIQUE,
however, we beg TO commend study Of the
fable OF the fly on the coach wheel
-. HE CHOLERA AT MARrIssBuRG.-The Hon.
Nh Faulkner informs the editor Of the Balt
more Patriot that the viruIepee of tb;. AZ.