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Fugitives Again

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
December
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
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For the inforroation of those vvho feel so "deeply agneved," that we should 1 courage and assist the Fugitive from Slavery, we will say, that a ftw daya since, a noble young man juet lrom the Lead Mines of Missouri, passcdthis way, on hisjourney lo Canada. A short time bcfore he leTt, hia master paid for hirn eighl hundred dollars. We rojoiced in the success that had attended his efíorts lo obtain Liberty, bade hiro God speed, and on he passed, njoicing. The reason of his leavicg was lo 8ave himself a cruel castigalion from hia maste, whose command he had broken, by going to visit his wifo from whom he had been absent more llian four weeks. The time he took to visit her was his own, he havirtg coïnpleted the task which had been assigned him. He was ready for service agair. at thirty miniulea before twelvc, at which time he was to commence labor for Master, but no matter for that, he had been absent contrary to order, and he must be whipped. For a similar offence a fellotv servant but a short time boforc, was so severely "corrected," that he died in á short time. This led the subject of this narralive to reason as follows : "Life and dealh are before me - if I can make my escape all us well; if not, I am a dead man." Coneequenlly, while preparalious were, making for his ''llogging." he slipped into the woods and in a tew weeks found himself in our vilhige. And the man, I care not who he is that cannot rejoice at such a providential escape of an innocent human being from the clutch es of 6uch a miserable tyrant as his pretended owner, deserves not the name of a man And for extending the hand of benevolence to such, we are willing, if need be, to be cal. ted "enemies to our country, robbers of our neighbors, wurse than horee thieves, &c. fcc."