The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-02-25
1rfrrto Correspondence.
THE REFUGEES IN CANADA.

Mr. EDToR:-I have read with great in.
terest your articles on the 'Irrepressible
Conflict" the satanic press" and the law
ofnature as expounded by Bennett of the
Herald and O'Conor of the New York
bar 1t is fortunate for us that your pa
per exists, and that it exists, too, in the
great Empire City, where such men as
UConor and Bennett, Of the satanic bar
and press, manufacturing new ideas on the
laws of nature" &c, may be met and ar
aigned in their baseness and gross absurd
ity before the public, and driven back to
their native dark empire whence they en-
enated. Suffice it to say on that point we
think you have done them up 6rOscm.
Inotice, however, that this satanic press
has recently originated number of vile
and malicious slanders against the colored
people under the head of "The Negroes
and Refugees Of Canada" some Of which
are worthy Of a reply, because there are
many persons into whose hands these state
ments may fall who are not able to discrim-
mate between the truth and error, not be-
Ing acquainted with the facts in the cases
referred to- The statements / deem wor-
thy of a reply are: First, 1t is asserted that
the refugees are in a deplOrably wretched
ana starving condition, and destitute of
morality, sobriety, and industry. Second,
That in some districts they far outnumber
the whites, and of course seek to rule by the
power of numbers. Third, That coils
ions are frequent between them, and that
distractions to law and order by the blacks,
and riot and outrage, are of common occur
renee.
These statements emenated from the
New York Herald" as you have Justly
styled it, the chief of the satanic press, and
have been extensively copied by its ennis
saries throughout the country, goodly
number of whom credit it here in Phila-
delphia. They were answered to the
Herald" of New York, and to the Press
and Ledger" of this city; but these arti-
cles are yet in their hands, they refusing
to publish them, simply because they pre-
ferred falsehood to truth, neither of them
knowing at the time whether they were
written by white or colored men. AT length
after considerable maneuvering, they were
published in one or two papers more friend
lv to truth We succeeded also in driving
the Herald" to mention the matter in a
more favorable light, and the Ledger to
retract the whole story and deny its truth
fulness entirely.
In attempting to sustain the above state.
ments, a case is cited at Chatham, and an.
ether at Sandwich, where it is said the fu-
gitives took possession of the public schools
driving teachers and pupils from them,
within the past few weeks. Allow me to
say, in the first place, that no such circum-
stance has at any time occurred, either at
Chatham, Sandwich, or any other city or
township within the province | live in
Upper Canada, and have travelled over
most Of the province, and have good oppOr-
tunities of becoming acquainted with the
moral, social, and political condition of the
e'iored people in various parts of the cOun-
Wand challenge the production of a
@Asle instance, taken from the criminal re-
T. S% any city, township, or county, set
\: I 10Th that the colored people have con-
F~'u 70 obstruct law, to rule by the pow