Here are two extracts from Northern papers, which, true or false, awaken
compassion in every human bosom toward the free colored people. Indeed,
allowing these statements, so unfavorable to them, to be mostly false,
it reveals the antipathy of the white to the colored race when the
blacks come to seek equality with the whites. Let these free blacks be
mixed up in large proportions with society in England and Scotland, and
if Canadians feel as they are here represented, we may be sure that the
present tone of the British people with regard to American slavery and
the blacks, would also be modified. But here are the extracts:--
"Getting Sick of Them.--The colored persons of Toronto, having had a
meeting to denounce Colonel John Prince, a member of the Canadian
Parliament, for speaking against them, he publishes a reply, in
which he says,--
"'It has been my misfortune, and the misfortune of my family, to
live among those blacks (and they have lived upon us) for
twenty-four years. I have employed hundreds of them, and with the
exception of one, named Richard Hunter, not one of them has done for
us a week's honest labor.
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