The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-07-07

| Bias and Hubert
Third item.-It will be seen by calculation that
this is 35 cents per week, or five cents per day
for each man-$l50.
Fourth item.-For the money distributed to
prisoners families we hold the receipts.
Fifth item.-For board and incidental expenses
of witnesses during trial, S95. Of this amount
Mr.. Samuel Williams received for services rem
dered $685. Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan, (see her re-
| ceipt below,) $40; Merriheu & Thompson, for 60
copies for report of 1882, 81 rs; do. for 800 cir
culars, SO IS; balance to Moses and Williams
families and for their removal, S24 80
We hold the receipts of Merriheu and
Thompson 1t will be observed that the
families of More and Williams, five in
number, received in all $44 so, or exactly
IS 80 to each person. The balance in
hand was paid to DR.. Bias and n W. De
pee, of which Comfort Hopkins, wife of
one of the prisoners, and daughter receiv-
ed $22 so; with the remaining $36 they
removed some four persons to the land Of
safety.
We place this note of Mr.. Passmore
| Williamson here because we neglected in
serting the amount received in the report
above, DIR. Bias being called away at the
time, and the note was mislaid. Also as
testimony of the best kind of the validity
of this committee, who, according to the
statement of our falsifer, really had
no valid existence, and raised money pro-
fessedly to defend men regularly provided
for"
| PHILADELPHIA, Jan. II, 1852.
| Mr.. Dear Sri collected ten
dollars for the benefit of George Williams,
which Immediately paid over (last Friday
into the hands of DIR, Bias, as member of
your Vigilance Committee, to be applied
for his use and benefit.
| Yours, ETC., P. WILLIAMSON.
This money was so applied, and for it
we hold the receipt We also wish, in
connection with this matter, to mention
that the Committee received $50 in addi-
ton to the above from Mr. Williamson,
which sum was never accounted for, for the
committee, being pledged to secreSy, al
ways felt delicacy in mentioning the
purpose for which it was applied but we
now state that with it we were enabled to
obtain information of the most vital i'm
portance, and necessary to the successful
performance of the duties for which the
Committee were appointed.
We feel perfectly assured that We might
leave this matter just here, satisfied that
as the Committee have shown the public,
in the above report, what they received
and how it was disposed of, no reasonable
complaint could be made But in looking
over the article already referred to, we find
this: THAT many hundred dollars were
raised from the various colored churches,
societies, and from individuals, not only in
this city, but in distant cities, in the name
of committee that really had no valid
existence, profeSsedly to defend men who
had been regularly provided for, is fact
fhat was fully established soon afterwards,
much to the discontinue at least of the
active agents in this begging speculation"
Now, as we have no desire or intention
of entering into any warfare with this de-
famer (who very naturally must feel sore
enough, after the recent castigation he re-
ceived from the hands Of a deeply injured
woman), we would pass this paragraph by
unnoticed, rendering only our silent and
respectful submission to his superior judg-
naent and experience in all matters pertain
ing to the profits that may accrue from
begging speculations;" but there is in it
direct charge of invalidity levelled at us.
Mark his words: "a committee that really
had no valid existence" We, therefore,
place on record for the benefit of the pub
lie, if indeed any doubts were ever enter
tained by them of the source from which
the committee. derived its powers to act, the
following certificate from Mr.. Samuel Van
Brakel, one of our oldest public men, and
Past Grand Master of the A Y. NJ. of
Penn. Many similar certificates could be
easily produced.
PHILADELPHIA, June Z, 1860.
Gentlemen-Having read the article in
the "Anglo-African" of June 2, stand
ready to prove the fact as to the origin Of
the Special Committe alluded to. 1t was
at public meeting in the Philadelphia
Institute, and very large and enthusi-
astic one it was, just after the passage of
the Fugitive Slave Law. had the honor
to preside as Chairman, and it was on mo-
ton of Mr.. VIM S. Pierce, attorney at
law, that this committee was appointed.
They were to have full power to act in all
cases arising from this infamous law, and
| was selected as one, but resigned because
the duties were too arduous.
| SAMUEL VAN BRAKLE.
To John p Burr and N. W. Depee.
But he "knows" Who doubts his
knowledge? But let us see if there be not
| otbers who "knowr as we'll as he. For