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Further Donation From Illinois To Canada Colored College

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Day
24
Month
June
Year
1844
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Public Domain
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ín the last number of this paper, the subscriber acknowledged the receipt of a box of goods from Mr, G. W. Burke, of Jerseyville, in Jersey County, on the Mississippi, Illinois, for the Canada Colored College, and stafed his delivery of the same to the Rev. Mr. Wilson. Since then Mr. Burke has passed through this city on his way to the east, and handed the subscriber ten dollars, contributed by the aboye friends for the Canada College, vvhich will beduly transmited. The exigencies of the College are great, and the above donations are very acceptable. Thisoccurrence induces the subscriber to add, that the Canada border, fronting the Detroit river, contains a vast number of escaped fugitives, who reach this asylum under circumstances of destitution, that may be readily appreciated. Gerierally uneducated, but ahvays from Southern climes. they are thrown among newpeople,of habits unknown, and in a country whose prodncts and climaie differ maten'ally from those they have been accustomed to. They find litlle or nosympathy, buton the contrary prejudice and ill-feeling Crom the frontier Canadians. Their numbers - their (Vants - their utfer desti-tution - their heretofore ignorance of Jaw, but as an oppressive tyran-ny - their temporary inaptitude to new scènes, and their awkardness among total stranges, are the causes ofthis feeling along a border, where business is not rife, and the activity of republican enterprise is unkuown. A scène of more beneficial expenditure of philantiiropy is no where presented : mind and body af e hef e equally destitute.Both are in a staíe of nature : both are in the most abject necessity : the mind wants moral & religiousinstruction - the body food and cíothing. They have been thus reduced by the revolting opprrssion of American law. Friends of Detroit, are of course, subject to frequent claims - to refuse which necessity obliges them, though the refusal rends the heart. The Dawn Mills College affords bat a mite of aid amid the ocean of claims, which surrounds it. Donations from friends, sent to the subscriber, will be sure of application to their designated use, and will be acknowledged in the Signal of Liberty. At the suggestion of Mr. Burke, a more petailed statement of the College and of the colored people in Canada will hereafter be given for the information of those at a distance. CHAS. H. STEWART. Detroit, June 18, 1844. P. S. - The accounts given by Mr. Burke, and lately by anothcr Illinois friend, from the interior of the State, of the miraculously increasing destestation of Slavery on the one hand, and of Liberty action on the other, in the once Slavery hot-beds of the Mississippi, around the Alton tombofthe martyred Lovejoy, and through southern Illinois, are most cheering. They are the legitímate fruits of balllot box suasion. The Mississippi moralists had ears and consciences for the ballot - ears that were deaf - and consciences that were torpid, when the ministers or philanthropist addressed them. - The thousands of ballot box suationists, who annually showed that they were not afraid to carry their principies into full effect, spoke a new language to these spectators of Slavery. It was not, that they now had merely their neighbors to contend with, but some 60,000 voting citizens, from the Atlantic cities to the extreme settlement of western woods. - Let our friends, then, be they ever so few. or so isolated in our new counties, in this State, not hesitate to cast their vote for Birney. It will not be lost, as inimical politicians, who know better, aver. It will teil - will teil every where ; in the North and the South - in Congress - among the slaveholders, and on those who halt between Slavery and Liberty. It will help many a slave to Liberty in this, and in the world to come. I wish all, who hesitate about their Presidential vote, had but talked with our western friends, and they would now know which to estimate highest, a Tariff, or a man's Soul and Body. C. H. S. IC The official vote of New Hampshire for Governor stands thus: For White, ConservaUve. 1,988 For Hoyi, Liberty, 5,767 For Colby, Whig, Í4..750 For Steele. Dem., 25,986 Scattering, 20J Necessary to a cholee, 24,347 Whole numberof votes, 48,692 The-proportion of Liberty votes is one to 8 óf the whole. Rather art "alarming fact" to those iriterested! The year 1848 will shew aome results in the poliiical world that are not yet dreamed of by demagogues. II r Gov. Steele, of New Hampshire, tbus hys down the Democratie doctrine on charters. "Chnriers or acts of incorporaiion of all kinds, ■should be carefuüy drawn, 'igidly ecrutinized. and sparingly granted. I know of no valid reaeon why aesoeinted wealth in any form, should enjoy by law, privileges or exemptions, which are denied to partnerships or to individúala.' O Mobs re moro expensive than good government. The Philadelphia County board have appropriated tliiriy thousaiti dollars for the p&y ment of military for their services in the late riotè." [(

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