The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-23
ruaIrryE SLAVES IN CANADA AND IN ENGLAND.


Advces from the Canadian provinces, upon which the
utmost reliance be placed, represent that the blacks
who are induced to leave their comfortable homes in the
southern States do not find very warm welcome in what
may be called hyperborean regions in than
one Many of them suffer the privations and
they quite to be substed upon Canadian
charity and always left penniless by their distant abol-
ton brethren and themselves indsposed unequal to the
labor which they must undergo to obtain livelihood
in their new locations may readily be believed that their
condition not of the most enviable character. Misled
from those who would have them cared for III sick
ness and in old age they left among strangers and
must become in Canada in the free States of the Union
source of uneasness to others and Of degradation TO
themselves This is the result of the fugtvesaye
pertinent in Canada. 1t reminds singularly Of cir
almost precisely similar which happened to
number of fugitves during the revolutionary The
British government, with characteristic benevolence, du-
ring that contest and in illustration of its devotion to
Christian humanity abored long and anxiousy TO arouse
the slaves of South against their masters Too successful
in exciting the sayages against unotendng whites Of all
ages and conditions beeved nothing would be easier than
to put into hands of the coored population Of the
South, and to them to work Staying their and
their masters families But they did not succeed in their
holy enterprise half well in their with the
Indians Very few indeed says Com Foote in his able
and useful book on africa and the American Flag very
few indeed of the colored othe United States joined the
English or tory party in the revolutionary war Thus the
character impressed The institution (ot siapey) frustrated
the recorded expectation those Ao forced This ega upon
reluctant peoplethat tie position and the influence Of The
negro society rould toreoer chech republican spirit and
keep The country in dependence"
"The small number says the eminent author 'ot
colored persons who did join the English produced
slight difficulty. That small number ought perhaps to
have been easily amagamated some how other with the
amount of English population That this did not hap
PEN and did possible is perfectly evident Either
color character position something else which it
is for the English people to explain prevented this Many
uithom the prospect Of their amalgamang nth the Lon
dons, and therefore, only combining incumbrance nui-
sance and danger By their presence there
This condition of things says Mr. Foote, las is well
known excited the attention and sympathy of Granville
Thorpe and led the foundation the college of Sierra
Leone a refuge for them
The treatment of fugitive slaves in England worse,
will be SEEM than it is in Canada. The laws Of
did their work and British philanthropy protested to
sympathze with the oppressed they called by
keeping them at distance. Like the aboonsts in the
United States who would emancpae all the blacks Of the
South in single day and then leave them to their fate
England eoad keep in overgrown London the few
groes who had left their during the revolutionary
war; to fight against the colonies, but sent them away
among strangers