The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-07-23
A FUGIT1vE's LETTER TO HIS "OLD
MASTER"
FUGITIVE S HOME,
Sandwich, C. w., March Is, '59. 5

ST-1 take LulS oppoAIuihtJ W t~'O
few lines to you, supposing you might
be curious to know of my whereabouts. L
am happy to inform you that l am in Can
ada, in good health, and have been here
several days Perhaps, by this time, you
have concluded that robbing a woman OF
her husband, and children of their father,
does not pay-at least in your case-and l
thought while lying in Jail by your dlrec-
ton. that if you had no remorse OF con-
science that would make you feel tor a
poor broken-hearted man and his worse
| than murdered wife and children, and could
not be made to feel for others as you would
have others feel for you, and could not by
any entreaty or persuasion be induced 10
do as you promised you would-whlch was
to let me go with my family for s8Oo-but
contended for 81 900, when you had prom
ised to take the same you gave Tor me
| (which was $500 at the time you bought
me, and let me go with my dear wife and
children, but instead would render me mis-
cradle, and lie to me and to your neighbor,
NOW, if words mean anything, what l say
is so,) and when you were at Louisville try
ing to sell me, then thought it was time
to make my feet feel for Canada, and let
your conscience feel in your pocket. Now,
you cannot say but that | did all that was
honorable and right while was with you,
although I was a slave. / pretended all
the time that ] thought you or some one
else had better right to me than | had to
myself, which, you know, is rather hard
thinking. You know, too, that you proved
traitor to me in the time of need, and
when in the most bitter distress that the
human soul is capable Of experiencing !;
could you have carried out your purpose,
| there would have been no relief. But |
rejoice to say that an unseen kind spirit
appeared for the oppressed, and bade me
take up my bed and walk-the result Of
which is thatI am victorious, and you are
defeated.
| am comfortably situated in Canada,
working for George Harris, one of the per
sons that act part in Uncle Toms Cab
in" He was slave few years ago in
Kentucky, but now owns farm so level
that there are not hills enough on it to
hide a dog, yet SO large that [ got lost on it
| the other day. He says that l may be the
means of helping poor fugitives, and doing
them as much good as he does, in time.
This country is aotwhat it has been rep
resented to me and others to be. In place
Of its being cold and barren, it has a beau
tiful, comfortable climate, and fertile soil.
| 1t is much more desirable in these respects
than any part of kentucky that | ever
saw There is only one thing to prevent
me being entirely happy here, and that is
the want of my dear wife and children,
and you to see us enjoying ourselves to-
gether here. / wish you could realize the
contrast between freedom and slavery :;
but it is not likely that we shall ever again
meet on this earth. But if you want to go
| to the next world, and meet in peace a
God of love, mercy, and justice, who says,
Inasmuch as ye did it to the least of
these, my little ones, you did it unto me" !"
making the professions that you do, pre-
tending to be follower of Christ, and tor
menting me and my little ones as you have
done, you had better repair the breaches
you have made among us in this world by
sending my wife and children to me-thus
preparing to meet your God in peace for
if God don't punish you for infictiug such
distress on the poorest of His poor, then
there is no use of haUing any God, or
talking about one But in this letter |
have said enough to cause you to do all
that is necessary for you to do, provided
you are any part of the man you pretend
ed to be. So will close by saying that
if you see proper to reply to my letter,
either condeming or justifying the course
you have taken with me, will again write
you.
/ hope you viii consider candidly, and
see if the nature of the case does not iusti-
fy every word | have said, and ten times
as much. You must not consider that it is
a slave talking to massa' now, but one as
free as yourself
subscribe myself one of the abused Of
America, but one of the justified and hon
ored of Canada
JACKSON WHITNEY
To WILLIAM RILEY, Springfield, Ky.
THE COLORED PEOPLE OF CANADA
NOT STARVING.
Several weeks ago there appeared in the
American Baptist an appeal for the