Selections: A Hard Case

A gentleman in whom we place implicit confidence, has informed us of the following affair, who was a witness of tho facts: "ín October the bark Hazard,Capt. Clark, snüed from Providcnce fbr New Orleans, lmvii.g on board a freecolored man, a nativeof Providence, as'cook. After a dangerous passage, having arrived at the destined porf, the vessel was considered unseaworthy, and of courso the crew abandoned her. Among the number to seek foremployment, was thïs honest colored man. There is a law ia S"ew Oíearís; that no colorad pcrson shall be found in thestreets after eight o'clock, n the evening. This poor man. from the free, pure air of New England, knew ïothingof thislaw, and was in search of )usiness past Ihehour. He was taken up y the watchmen, and put into prison, vhere he was confined six weeks; then aken out, and let out to work, to py his dungeon fees, which were ninety dollars. While thus at work, a passenger who went out in the bark with him, accidentally met him. - He was chained around the ancle and knee, under the lash of' the task master- emaciated and sick.--; He begged of him to ive hiro a üicavune.to buy some bread vith; for, said ho, 'I am almost starvcd.' Our informant states that he tben endeavored io get hiin from the clutches of the field driver, but being unsuccessful he left him in agony bordering upon despair. The colored man had learned his fa te, and was cast down anddejected; and thus suffen ng by the eifects of the climate and the lash. was apparentIy npproaching the confines of another more welcomely to bs received country than that ruled by the tyrannic arm of" slaveholders. When be has labored long enough tof pay his jail charges, he is, if' living, to be put up at aucfion, and sold to" the highest bidder- sold into perpetual bondage! This is another of the millioir of facts that should make the bosom of every aboKtionist burn with zealous indigna-' tion- should arouse the dörmanf feelingaof every lover of freedom. We hope and Gelieve ihat the end of man-steafing is at hand. It must be so. Who can help becoming, if he is not already, an abolitionists, in the face af facts like these? Where is the man who will gay there is justice or humanity in this case? Look at it onder the light of humanity, and weigh the crime and ptíñishmení'in the balance of human righís. The negro isgumy ot a trivial offence, and the punishment is perpetual bondage. Should the northerners have nothing to do with southern slavery, when our northern merr are stolen frotó ús, and placed under the tormenta of the inquisition? We think they should have much to do with it. The North should demand this man. If' he has brolcen n }av, let Ium by the law receive Iiis deserts; but never lel tho NoTth give up a man to be the property of a southern slaveholder, until the slave-" holder sliall produce a biíl of sale from tho