Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-08-19
FROM A FUGITIVE SLAVE TO HIS MASTER.
FUGITIyE's HOME Sandwich. G. w.
March Is, 1859.

March Is, 1859. :
Mr. Wm, Riley, Springfield, Ky.-
Sir: l take this opportunity to dictate
few lines to you, supposing you might
be curious to know my whereabouts.
am happy to inform you that l am in
| Canada, 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 thought, while lying in
Jail by your direction, that if you had no
remorse of conscience that would make !
you feel for a poor broken-hearted man,
and a worse-than-m 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
pc rsuasion be induced to do as you prom
ised you would, which was TO let me go
with my family for $800-but contended
for 500, when you had promised to take
the same you gave me (Which was 5000
at the time you bought me, and let me
/, 90 with my dear wife and children! but
, instead would render me miserable, and
: lie to me, and your neighbors (now if
words mean anything, what ] say is so,)
and when you was at Louisville trying
to sell me then thought it was time
= to make my feet feel for Canada, and
n let your conscience feel in your pocket.
= Now you cannot say but that l did all
J. that was honorable and right while was
= with you, although | was slave.
g pretended all the while that | thought
e you, or some one else, had a better right
II to me than | had to myself, which you
l. know is rather hard thinking. You
ie know, too, that you proved traitor to
e me in the time of need, and when in the
E. most bitter distress that the soul is expe-
y riencing; and could you have carried out
er your purposes there would have been no
i relief. But l rejoice to say that an I'M
$ seen, kind spirit appeared for the Cypress
ot ed, and babe me take up my bed and
" walk-the result OF which is that l am
d. victorious and you are defeated.
mt am comfortable situated in Canada
ID working for George Harris, one of the
r. persons that act a part in " Uncle Tom.
So Cabin" He was u slave in Kentucky
he and now owns farm so level that Their,
la, are not hills enough to hide dog, yet 81
We large that got lost in it the other day
ity He says that may be the means of help
m ing poor fugitives and doing them a
he much good as he does, in time.
This country is not what it has bee
els represented to me and others to be.
ted
:. In place of IFS being cold and barren
it has a beautiful, comfortable clmat,
and fertile soil. 1t is much more desirs
on bic in these respects than any part {
av- Kentucky that l ever saw. There
aid only one thing to prevent me from beir
en- entirely happy here, and that isthe wal
in of my dear wife and children, and you
fnd see US enjoying ourselves here. wi;
,ral You could realize the contrast betwet
,ere Freedom and Slavery; but it is not lik
on. y we shall ever meet again on this cart
am But if you want TO 90 to the next wor
INST. and meet God of love, mercy and ju
me tice, in peace; who says, "Inasmuch
had you did it to the least Of them, my lit
ees ones, you did il unto me"-making +
S. professions that you do, pretending to
,out follower of Christ, and tormenting I
AGO, and my little ones, as you have done
cted had better repair the breaches you ha
o in made among US in this world by sendi
rom in this world by sending to me my wi
told and children; thus preparing to IN,
most your God in peace for, if God do
that punish you for inhicting such distress
emf the poorest of His poor, then there is
lual use of having any God, or talking abe
tho one. But, in this letter ! have S
opld enough to cause you to do all that is
our cessary for you to do, providing you
ST of any part Of the man you pretend to
mate So will close by saying that, if you
ages, proper to reply to my letter, either G
,rted demning or justifying the course you hi
ntbs taken with me, viii write you again
Sup hope you viii consider candidly a
ting see if the case does not justify ev,
in word have said, and ten times as mu
Duth, You must not consider that it is sd
frica talking to massa" now but one free
ting yourself
redu- inscribe myself one Of the abused
ming of America, but one of the justified 1
luni- honOred Of Canada.
per JACKSON WHITNEY