The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-02-25

are traced to another class of fugtives. 1t
is true that such cases as the Jack rescue
at Chatham, the Warren matrimonial SLAM
der of Windsor, the burlesque opera diff
Guilty at St GATHERINGS, and the compelling
Of circus companies to draw stakes and re-
move from Hamilton, Anderson, snd other
places within the province to the tune of
Yankee Doodle" have occurred; but the
facts, as developed in the subsequent his
tory Of these cases, show that they were
neither conspiracies against law nor at
tempts to rule by the power of number, for
in neither case did the law or any consid-
cradle number of citizens take part, pro or
con. The history of these may be learned
from the Toronto "Gtobe," Chatham "Pla-
net," Sandwich "Maple Leaf London
Prototype" and other papers published in
Canada by unbiased and impartial citi-
Zens.
1t may be observed, therefore, that the
collisions are not between the colored peo-
pie and the law, but between us and the
meaner sert of Yankees who infest the
country, or between us and the fugitives
from Justice or refugees who take shelter
from despotic powers under Canadian pro-
lection, and who are often imbaed with all
the prejudice and hostility to colored men
that can be found anywhere, yet having
no law to lend its influence in crushing out
every vestige of manliness and every in
centive to honorable emulation that they
may be possessed of as is the case in this
country. There is, therefore, sometimes, a
collision between the icolored people and
the meaner sort of Yankees and their pre-
judices; but, haply for US, the law and al
order-loving loyal citizens of Canada are
with us, and every such collision advances
the cause of colored men in Canada
There are two ideas that l would sug-
gest to the friends of the colored people in
Canada. First, They should not think
that all that is published by the papers in
Canada on this subject is true. We have
branches of the satanic press there as well
as in the States, who have their members
of the fraternity to serve. Such are the
Windsor Herald" London "News," and
others of the same stamp. The simple
idea of an article copied from either of
these referring to the colored people is sig
nifcant of the fact that the statement is
false, for these papers, like their great pro-
totype, the Herald" carefully avoid truth,
even when one takes the time and employs
the means to secure it for and hand it to
them. Persons, therefore, should not think
that Canada is Paradise in the direct sense
of that term, Gas some have told me they
thought it was, and that therefore what
ever comes through the Canadian press
is of holy origin or of divine inspiration.
And it is not always colored people who
are referred to by these Canadian papers
as fugitive paupers and refugees. Irish,
Wech, Serfs, Poles, and even Yankees
help to swell that class of the population in
Canada The Toronto "Globe," weekly
CoIonist," London Prototype" and other
official organs in Canada, oftener allude to
them under the head of Fugitive Paupers
and Rebel Refugees" than to any portion
of the colored population. AS an evidence
of this, please read the Chatham "Planet"
or the "Colonist" for the week ending
Jan. 2l. 1t is well, therefore, to discrimi-
nate between those articles that refer to the
blacks. l frequently get copy of the
New York "Herald" when at home, and
often see such mistakes made by that pa.
per. suppose the reason to be that, liv-
ing in the blackness of despair itself, it i'm
sgines that all that is bad is black, and can
form no conception of white fugitive reb-
els. I would suggest that if the editor of
the Herald would have his optics i'm
proved in this direction aud the necessity
of his labcring with the Republican party
for the interest, as they avow, of poor white
men, he should take tramp or a ride
through Canada, and pass on through
Southern Indiana and Illinois, where that
class of men the Republicans labor for
and which the Herald" }" too, processes to
love-as naturally originate "hard-shell
sermons" and preach them to gaping null
titudes, as do our burlesque opera troupes
present them to us for our amusement, at
ter listening to and copying the original as
it fell from the lips of its author.
1t is remarkable that this class of con-
servative editors in Canada are either refu-
gees recently escaped from some foreign
country or Yankees trained and schOoled
in the hot-bed of American prejudice. Such