Letter From A Slave

Last woek we received a letter inclosiug two dollars to pay for the Signal one year. It was from a slave - or rather from one who was once a slave, but has now achieved his freedom. He writes, iune lst: "I wish to inform you that we have iad the pleasure of the company of some iouthern visiters. They say that they :ame after some of their slaves hére, and Í am one of them; but the signs of the imes ore altered - they can1 1 comeii! Mymaster'sbrother-in-law wasone of them. He inquired for me, but I was out . . . . . . . and I did uot got the opportunity to see him, but have understood that they would be back again in six weeks with a stronger forcé, to take us away home.- So we still look for them, and keep ourselves prepared to meet them without dread or fear. was out here last summer after us, and we told Iiim that we had no desires to go back again." We trust the writer will show, by his defence of his Jiberty, should occasion re}uire it, thathe is worthy of it - that he ;tknows his rights, and knowing, dare naintain them." It may be well for those interested in lave catching to bear in mind, that the ct of Congress oí 1793, does not require r authorize the issuing of any warrant or recept whatever, by a Justice of the 'eace, for bringingtho alledged slavebebre the tribunal. The law says, the Iaimant,his agent or attorney "ishereby mpoweredtoseize or arrest such fugitive rom labor, and to take him or her before ny judge" &c- that is, if he can. Any erson aiding in such arrest, whether ofcially or otherwise, under the authority f a Justice of the Peoce, acts without any uthority of law tvh-atever. The laws of íicíhiír.in Irnnw -vP cln„n„Alter tne person cJaimed is arrested and is handed over to the claimant by the judicial authority, the claimant must keep him as best he may. Our jailors have no authority for imprisoning persons as slaves. When Latimer was imprisoned in jail in Boston, the Sheriff was threafened with a prosecution. He procured the best counsel in the city, and was informed he was holding a man in durance without any law, and he would have released him, had not his freedom been purchased at a definite nrice. We do not advise a resort to bloodshed by the slave. We are rather inelined to the non-resrslant school of Christians. - But the greater portion of Christians believe it right to defend liberty, by any amount of bloodshed tbsrt may be necessary for!hat purprse. They go further. They praise, eulogize, and extol the heroic virtue of those who die rather than be slaves. Should such hear of the Ufe íf a master taken by a slave, let them not regard the act as a crime. On the soil }f Michigan, the master and slave stand )n-ibe same footing: our laws know nothng of slavery; and if the master comnence a war upon his former servant, he nusl wage the battle as best he may.- 3e, certatnly. should receive neither aid r sympatliy from free men.ff?0 The Yirginia Legislature, in their wisdom, have prohibited Yankee pedlars Trom selling docks, unless they pay a large sum for licenses, to be renewed every twelve months, So Jonathan has quit selling altogether, and now hases his docks for a hundred years or less, and drives a thriving bussiness. it?5 The Old Organization Abolitionists sustain their organ, the A. S. Standard, at a heavy loss. The receipts for the paper last year were $3,105,23.- The cost of prinling the Standard was I 83,983.72, anu the salary of Editor,agent, and the oíRce expenses, amounted to $4r 994,76 more. The deficiency was made up by donations.