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Fugitives

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
November
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
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From a letter of Iliram Wilson, dated Toronto, Sep!. 13,1841. I saw a man lately froni Miss., who at one time received 700 lashes upon his naked body. He showed me his scars which could not be counted for multitude. At the instigation of a minister of the gos pel, (what gospel I don't knmv,) the c junty sheriff of the free State of Illinois who had him onc monlh in jail, gave him fifty lashes upon his naked body to extort from him his former' residence, master's name etc. ("What has the North lo do with slavery?1') His wife was whipped and most shamefully abused when in a delicate situation, and experienced an unlimely deliverenoe of twins, who weremurdered by slavery befure their birth. I was wel I satisfied that the story of his aggrievances was no fiction, for I saw wilh my own eyes fhe numerous srars with whicli his bu(Jy was spotted all over. I sáw at Malden, Mr. Chinn, a brother-in lnw of Col, Richard M. Johnson, of Ky., late Vice President of ihe United States. Chinn eloped Trom his master at Detroit about a year since, and carne over to enjoy Britisli überty, leaving Johnson to enjoy the convivial gratulations of a sinking party, and to return again toKentucky servantless. I saw nt Sandwich a very intelligent and pions woman,offine appcarance, a bright mulatto 27 years ofnge, daughter of one Col. Smith, of Virginia. Miss S. had been sold several limes, and finally eloped from New Orleansf came to St. Louis and concealed herself there thrce months; thence to Cincinnati, where she narrowly escaped the snare of a colored traitor, but found friends and protection; thence to Oberlin and thence to Canada. 1 have ber narrntive in full. It is fraught wilh interest which phoul J wake up the dead. If there san instnnce of triumphant virtue, nay of moral sublimity, sshining beautifully in female chnracter in the midst of oppression, pollution and a thousa.nd seductive snares, she stands foremost, f her story is true, and I have no reason to doubt it. To wiiness her gratilude to her friend?, her unassuffiing rnodesty, unfeigned humility, tendernessofconscience and melting loveto God, her preserver and delivcrer, and hear her ex press her feelings, is truly overpowering. A pious colored man, to whom she wus engaged in tnarriage at New Orleans, cloped from his master about a year ngo at New York. Ilis name is Robert Brown. He is probably now somewhere in Canada. May the same kind Providence who has brought them up out of great tribulation bring "them happily togelher in nuptial bonds.