Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-04-28

concern, hut one OF It's Olf1cerS receives any
pecunOry compensation and during the
past fall and winter one of its friend has
spent months of unsuspended toll walking
from five to fifteen miles per day, soliciting
aid for these people, and receiving no other
compensation than the consciousness oil
good doing.
Before closing this article will correct
a few miscellaneous statements
l. In reference to the depreciation Of
property in Windsor. Soon after the CON-
pletion of the Great Western Railroad, real
estate ran up in this town to fabulous pri-
ces, and remained So notwithstanding the
presence of the colored population, until
the great financial revolution rolled over
the West then everything went down,
and has been down ever since. But this
change was no more affected by the color
ed people than are the tides
q Report has gone abroad that the Ca
madam government threaten action for the
exclusion of these people. What are the
facts A few years ago Colonel Prince
was elected to the Canadian House of
Lords d; but the colored people had iustf-
able reasons, in their own eyes for danger.
ously swelling the vote of his competitor.
On taking his seat this fine old English
gentleman" Hnder various Inspirations
took occasion to make reprisas for this vote
by vote reflecting severely upon the col.
ored people, and this was the only speech
made in Parliament on that side of the
question. So much for the threatened ac.
tion of the gOvernment-now for the Sc.
quel. On the first day of last August the
Colonel threw open his beautiful groves in
Sandwich aud invited the colored people
to hold there their anniversary celebration; !;
and there, in the presence of congrcgatcd
thousands, he revoked his Parliament
speech, that the papers had not correctly
reported, him that be did net wish to be
held responsible for things uttered in the
heat of debate, and that he wished to live
in friendship with the colored people 1t
might be unchartable to say that the Col
was induced to this retraction by the pres.
ence Of q noble heir in his family, whose
future elevation to his fathers honors may
require the votes of the people whose
friendship is thus wooed
g. OF all Misrepresentation of these
charge that ''no white woman IS safe from
their assault" Were 1 at liberty to lift
the curtain on the other side of the
question, facts would be revealed that
would mantle the cheeks of their ira.
ducers with shame and confusion -
This is only saying that unprinciped
men find a home in as well as out of Cana.
da. For yerrs l have attended the asst
zes of Essex county, and never have ]
known or heard of trial of rape in that
county where the parties where black op.
posed TO the white and | will venture
the affirmation thai search of the records
of the Court Of Queen's Bench for that
county, for a period of twenty years pas t
will not discover Two convictions for thai
crime by colored persons against white
ones.
4. 1t is affirmed from the rigor of the
climate the people die rapidly with the con
sumption. Out of the "eighty families
mentioned by your correspondent, on the
Refugee Home lands, but two have died o.
that disease in seven years. One Of these
was over fifty. and the other over sixty
years old. Consumption is, therefore, OF
peculiar to the colored people in Canada.
Finally let these Canadian refugees re
ceive the special sympathy and care of the
Christian and phiIanthropist, and they may
yet become an nnSpeakable blessing to AT
rica, to the West Indies. and to thei
brethren yet to be emancipated in thu
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