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FEBRUARY, 1861.     DOUGLASS' MONTHLY     407
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trust that the intelligent colored men in the State of New York are completely aroused by the insult cast upon them in the Suffrage matter, that they will never cease to labor until they have equal rights secured to them.

I must close.  Ere doing so I will just say that this season of the year brings you, dear friend, particularly to our minds, as this time, last winter, you were beneath our roof.  Very many kind inquiries are made for you, and many regards and warm wishes are sent to you, accompanied by the hope of soon seeing you again.  I need scarcely add that all at Salem join in this hope, and send their kind love.  Our little 'Birdie' every evening prays for 'Uncle Frederick'--so you are not forgotten in any quarter.  This is the season when friendly greetings, and wishes for 'a merry Christmas and happy new year' are traveling far and wide; but when I think of the vacant niche in your home circle, of the melancholy that must ever steal over you when looking back upon this (to you) sad year, 1860, and of the sweet little spirit that upward winged its flight, and left you to mourn its loss, my heart feels so sad, and I realize how vain are all human hopes and wishes.  May He who bindeth up the broken hearted cheer and comfort you, and bestow upon you the light of his His countenance, and His favor, which is better than life itself!

My kind remembrances to all inquiring friends.  I hope to send you a scribble monthly  during the coming year, if all be well.  Believe me, as ever, 
Your faithful friend,
Julia G. Crofts
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THE CANADA EXTRADITION CASE.
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In our January number we gae a full history of this extraordinary case, which is now agitating our Canadian brethren.  Anderson has been removed from Toronto, and is now lying in Brantford jail, awaiting the decision of the Court of Error and Appeal.  If that tribunal proves unfavorable, the matter will be brought before the Queen in Council.  Well informed parties tell us that he can never be taken back into slavery.  Large public meetings have been held in Toronto, sympathizing with Anderson.  Our noble friend Gerrit Smith has already made two visits to Toronto, and is using his utmost exertions to procure the poor man's liberation.  Mr. Smith addressed the citizens of that city on Tuesday evening, Jan. 15th, and the Globe --a paper that has taken a noble stand for the right throughout the controversy--contains the following account of the meeting:

The announcement that the Hon. Gerrit Smith, the distinguished American philanthropist, would deliver an address on American slavery, with special reference to the case of the fugitive slave, Anderson, attracted a numerous audience last evening to the St. Lawrence Hall.  At seven o'clock, the hour announced for the meeting, the Hall was quite full, and very soon it became so crowded, the passages as well as seats being densely occupied, that many had to go away from the door unable to obtain admittance.  We observed present many of our most prominent citizens, and the audience also comprised a fair sprinkling of ladies.  Our colored citizens, as might have been expected, turned out in good numbers.  As Mr. Gerrit Smith entered the Hall, a few minutes after seven, he was enthusiastically cheered.  He was accompanied to the platform by Rev. Dr. Willis, President of the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada,
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Thomas Henning, Esq., Secretary of the Society, John Scoble, Esq., T.G. Hodgins, Esq., Rev. Dr. Richardson, Rev. Mr. Marling, Rice Lewis, Esq., John Bugg, Esq., Dr. Augusta, &c., &c.

REV. DR. WILLIS, having taken the chair, opened the proceedings with prayer.  He then said it was scarcely necessary for him, except in a mere technical sense, to introduce their honored visitor.  (Cheers.)  The name of their honored friend was well known for many a good work.  He was one beyond most much loved, and, as might be expected, by some parties much hated.  He was much gratified by the arrival of Mr. Smith in this city, and for such a purpose.  At the recent meeting held here on behalf of Anderson, it might have seemed that they were speaking British sentiment on an American question.  But he held that this was a world's question--(cheers)--and their friend came to speak, not on an American question, or a British question, but on a question of humanity.  (Cheers)  In any contendings in connection with this great question, we were not animated by merely national feelings.  He was sure all wished well to the United States.  We all wished that their stars, even in their united galaxy, should shine upon their large territory still.  Only let them shine impartially upon men of all colors.  (Cheers.)  Like the north star, let that galaxy be associated with the idea of liberty.  And may ever their stripes be gloriously displayed, but God grant that there may soon be detached from them all idea of the stripes of cruelty and oppression.  Dr. Willis concluded by introducing Mr. Smith, whose visit to Toronto, he said, was impelled by his sympathy in a case which had engaged so much sympathies of us all.  (Cheers.)

MR. GERRIT SMITH, on rising, was again enthusiastically cheered.  On account of the pressure of other matter, we are unable to find room for a full report to-day and must content ourselves with giving his introductory remarks, a sketch of the line of argument he pursued.  He commenced by saying:  This, my friends, is my second visit to your city within the last three weeks.  My two journeys make a thousand miles.  I have much to do and much to enjoy at home.  Why, then, do I leave it at this cold season of the year, to come to this city?  I left it to come here and look into the face and press the hand of my poor brother, who is in danger of being burned at the stake.  In my former visit I had this privilege.  It is now denied me, for I have learned that he has been removed from your prison to another.  I am hear [sic] to mingle my sympathies with yours over his hard lot.  (Cheers.)  I am here to join you in supplications to God, and to add my arguments and appeals to yours for his deliverance.  And now do any of you enquire why it is that I, a foreigner, come among you to meddle with your concerns?  My answer is, these are my concerns as well as yours.  My answer is, that this poor prisoner was of my country; as indeed were most of your colored people.  My answer is, that their fate is bound up in his, and that if you take him from the protection of your laws, you take it from them also.  My answer is, that you will take from the slaves of my country, from those who are still pining there in slavery, their hope of a refuge.  Hundreds of thousands of my oppressed countrymen are at this hour looking to Canada for a refuge, but their hope for that will wither and die if they shall learn that you have come in this Province to administer the law of slavery.  And the friends of the slave in my country, the Abolitionists--we, too, may need a retreat in Canada, and if you cut off the black man from this retreat, you will cut off from it the white man also.  I say we, the Abolitionists of the Stats, may need to find a retreat in your Province, for we know not what is before us.  The servility of the Northern States of the American Union to the slave power is now, for the purpose of appeasing the wrath of the slaveholders, and for the purpose of preserving our thrice guilty Union--is now threatening he more rigorous enforcement of our Fugitive Slave Act, and
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more certain and fearful penalties against all of us who shall dare to help the slave in his flight.  But we, Abolitionists, must continue to help him, wherever we can, and wherever we can--(cheers)--for we desire to be actuated by the principles of Christ's religion of doing as we would be done by.  We feel that to cease from helping the flight of the slave would be to give up our manhood, to give up our souls, and to give up our God.  (Cheers.)  We are shut up to the necessity of remembering them that are in bonds as bound with the, and of putting our souls in their soul' stead.  We cannot forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and that are ready to be slain.  We cannot stop our ears when the poor cry.  We cannot, as we pity the poor, and we cannot, lest the time may come when we ourselves shall cry and shall not be heard.  In a word, we must obey God rather than man.  Like Daniel, we be found steadfast, as concerning the law of our God.  We are commanded, in common with our whole nation, to prostrate ourselves before slavery, and we must as strenuously resist idol-worship as did Shadrach, Meshech and Abednego.  (Cheers.)  We are now threatened with the suppression of free speech on the subject in our land.  Our anti-slavery meetings now in the States are coming to be broken up by mobs as they were twenty or thirty years ago.  There is perhaps scarcely one city in the Northern States where we can hold a meeting and plead for the slave.--Yet we must open our mouth to speak for the dum, to please the cause of such as appointed to destruction.  And now, Canadians, tell me will you deny us an asylum?  (Cries of never!)  You will deny it to us, if you deny it to the black man.  You will deny it to both of us, if you recognise and administer the law of slavery.  (Hear, hear.)  But, if these considerations are not sufficient warrant for my appearing here, then I will step far above the low ground of apology, and in the name of our common human nature claim the right to be here.  (Cheers.)  In the language of Terence, who, like poor Anderson, was himself an African slave, I would exclaim--'Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.'  (Cheers.)  In a word, forgetting all conventionalism, and all State lines and national boundaries, I will fall back on the unsurrendered right of the human brotherhood, the right, aye, and the obligation, of every man to be every other man's keeper--(cheers)--that great and sacred right, in the presence of which, to use Apostolic language, men are not more strangers and foreigners to each other.  (Cheers.)  Mr. Smith then proceeded to refer more particularly to Anderson's case, and to demonstrate that, if judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench was upheld, Canada must be considered as administering the law of slavery.  To show what was the British feeling on the subject of slavery, he quoted passages from Curran, Sheridan, Pitt, and Brougham.  But that glorious British law, in the case of Anderson, had been thrust aside to make room for the infernal slave law; and strange it was that it was British hands that did this.  He prayed that British hands might never again be so strangely employed.  
He asked why it was that Anderson had not been tried exclusively by British law?--Why was it that in this British Province the Court had, in Anderson's case, descended from the glorious heights of British law to the dark hell of slavery's law?  He vindicated Anderson's right to do so as he had done.  Had an attempt been made here to kidnap him, and he had turned and slain one of his pursuers, he would have been honored.  Had he turned and killed them all, the Courts of Canada would have joined the people of Canada in exalting  him to a high place in the heaven of British heroes.  (Cheers.)  But in Anderson's case it was said that the courts were governed by the Ashburton Treaty.  Mr. Smith proceeded to show that there was nothing in the Ashburton Treaty which required the rendition of Anderson.  He narrated what took place at an interview he had with Lord Ashburton on the day he sailed for England, after
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