The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-02-11
THE N. Y. HERALD AND THE FUGI-
TIVES IN CANADA.

TIVES IN CANADA.
MIR. EDIToR-In your very able reply to
the New York Herald's SANDER of colored
Canadians, you have, l am panied to see,
given the impression that there is a great
deal of destitution among those colored
people. While others with myself are
proud of the noble defense in the "Anglo,"
this seeming admission of one of the Her.
AIDS" most harefaced falsehoods, for want
of proper information, shows clearly the
Importance of colored Americans being
thoroughly informed upon every matter
relating to our despised people, whether
resident in Canada or in the United States,
and not being, as now, obliged to take
statements designed to injure the slave and
his cause as facts to be justified, or, least,
to be excused.
The "Herald's" correspondent, Douglass
A. Levin, by pretending to be an Aboli-
titionist, had, with money, clothing, and
other necessaries, so wrought upon gree
dy old man named J. G. Brown as to get
the statement from him of the Dawn, the
Moore School, and other settlements,
thickly interspersed with assertions of his
own present destitution, and thence was af-
forded more easily the wicked conclusion
that free negroes cannot take care of them
selve. Brown, in order to shield himself
from merited rebuke at home, has publish
ed letter in local paper, and though ad-
mitting that but two or three of the state
ments land those he corrects) were not Civ
en-, is compelled to disavow the very desti-
tuition in the settlements which he thought
so necessary to affirm in order to get the
"Herald's" good things
The Herald" man did not see the two
John Brown men, and could not, and did
not, therefore, describe them; but could he
have seen them it would have been anoth-
er instance of successful treachery among
colored men, as a grandson of this same J.
G. Brown sought diligently, on the part of
his grandfather and parent to bring about
apersonal interview between the Herald's"
Abolitionisti and the gentlemen allud-
ed to.
The Herald" is not only seeking to de-
stroy the fourishing underground railroad
and cripple the cause of education by the
assertion that funds for the road are OBJ
tanned under false pretence, but to so
weaken the leaven of Anti-Slavery that
your "Union-savers" may henceforth rule
undisturbed; but the Herald" is not only
blind of one eye, butt irreclaimably stu
pid.
The Herald" is a great liar, and the De-
troit "Free Press" is as nearly like the
Herald" as poodle can be like mastif
1t is barking forth in chorus with the big
ger sheet, but while the "Herald" pretends
to show of figures, the "Press," in the in
toxication of mendacity, makes up lies out
of whole cloth, little and big, angular and
square, and some without any known or
conceivable proportions. 1t gets lashed
by the Advertiser" of Detroit, and by the
Provincial Freeman" and the planet" at
Chatham. The cowardly editor, Cook, on
visit here, avows to the Mayor and other
gentlemen that "it is all lie-upon his
soul, wicked lie-and, once home, the
Free Press would correct the false state
ments." Upon this assurance, our Town
Council members, who had, through DR..
Gross, determined to pass resolution ex-
pressive of their outraged feelings, delayed
action; but imagine their surprise when
the next Gree Press" came to hand not
only persisting in its first statements, but
the editor declaring that his conclusions
were formed "at the seat of war;"
Now, Mr. Editor, would it not be well,
in view of the stereotyped infamous char
acteristics of the Herald, "Free Press
and kindred papers, to believe nothing they
publish as news or facts about colored peo-
pie, Abolitionists, &C., unless proof from
reliable AntiSlavery sources accompany
itG One would think experience of the
New York "Herald" would have induced