Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-11-10

about As, 900 fugitive slaves in Canada, who have
escaped from the slave States, and we're enjoying
the privileges Of freedom, and yet even in the
town Of Windsor, in Canada West, whore he re-
sided, the prejudice against people of color had
so followed them from the States that his children
were not allowed to attend tho schoolhouse, for
which he, in company with others Of the colored
population, paid annual taxes. Upon his remon-
strating with tho trustees Of the school, they told
him that if he would 6ud a person who would
teach a class Of colored children they would try to
obtain O separate school for them. Thus, though
they paid taxes for school education, they we're de-
niedlits privileges; as their only cha noe of i'm.
provement was education, they had bull, schoole
and chapeis of their own. In speaking of the in
dustry Of the fugitive slaves, the lecturer said be
had known a number Of instances in which they
had learned trades and supported themselves and
families shortly after their arrival. They cul tiva-
ted the ground equally as we'll as their neighbors,
and some of them had managed to purchase farms
Of fifty to two hundred acres. There were about
eight hundred 10 the town Of Windsor, several OF
whom were men Of property. As regarded their
morals, because they were not oil moral, it was
said they were all degraded. 1t was impossible,
he said, that among forty thousand persons, there
should be none found immoral. But il was the
purpose of the pro-slsvery party to make them
appear to be prone to immortality and laziness, and
therefore give out that il was infinitely better to
keep them in a state Of bondage. If a black man
tecame a member OF a church, he must take his
seat away up in the gallery; if the Lords supper
was administered, the colored members were COM
PEELED to wait till the white mon had partaken.
when they came dow afteswsrd and shared in
the communion by themselves. There was a dis.
position in them to love the worship Of God, and
a willingness to hear the Gospel. lie had preach.
ed to two thousand of these persons at time, and
whenever they heard of Christ and him crucifed
they seemed anxious to listen to what the preacher
said. This eyinced their improved moral condi
ton, and WIS sufficient to contradict the asser
tons Of their enemies about their degraded condi
ton. The speaker alluded to the destitute condi
ton of the Iugitives upon theft arrival, some of then
having come from a distance of 500 miles. IL
had seen men arrive with their legs frostbitten b,
the seventies of the weather, and women carrying
their children in their arms who had travelled al
incredible distance, during the depth Of winter
and who had wept tears Of joy when first setting
foot on free soil. He related u touching inciden
Of q fugitive slave mother, who, rather than allo7
her children whom she had rescued to return t
slavery, cut their thrOats in the presence of thei
captors. The speaker concluded By appealing
bis audience to assist the fugitive slavee of Canad
in building schools and places of worship, wher
they might be educated and taught the blessing
to be derived from a knowledge of the Gospel o
Christ.