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From the Voice of the Fugitive.
SELF-EMANCIPATIONISTS.
On last Saturday morning, a little company, consisting of six fugitives from the land of chains and thumb-screws, landed at this depot of the Underground railroad. They were formerly kept and worked as the property of Rev. Mr. Jackson, near Memphis, Tennessee. On the same day, there were fifteen more came in on the express train of the above road. These were mostly able-bodied men from the State of Missouri- cruelly held and treated as property by ‘respectable farmers.’ Four more have landed at this depot since the above lot- the latter were from Kentucky; and, moreover, we are informed by our correspondent at Amherstburg, Canada West, that forty more, all in one company, landed at that depot of the above road one day this week- and every man of whom was ‘armed to the teeth’ with deadly weapons with which to defend what the American people counted in 1776 dearer than human life. All of these, too, have come up out of great tribulations, in defiance of the Fugitive Slave Act; and all of whom have been safely over the Underground railroad to Canada, without the least difficulty. This road is doing a safe and prosperous business this fall. No man who wishes to invest capital in railroad stock can do better than to take stock in this prosperous company. Our trains never come in collision with each other- our conductors are always sober, wide-awake, and on the look-out.
Now in behalf of our liberty-loving country, and in the name of British freedom, we bid these refugees welcome to our hospitable shores; and we would most respectfully invite them immediately too take the oath of allegiance to this government, that will ever protect them in the enjoyment of that liberty which the President of the United States, with all of his posse, have pledged themselves to crush out of the friends of liberty in that slaveholding Republic.