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African Anti Slavery Almanac. 

Fruits of Emancipation. 
    The liberality of the freed Christians in the West Indies, in contributing money from their scanty resources for the furtherance of the gospel, is most remarkable, and may well attract the attention of those managers of benevolent societies in the United States, who are courting the patronage of a handful of slaveholders, forgetful of the time to come, when three millions of emancipated Americans will throng with their gifts to the treasury of the Lord. 
    The following anecdote, related by a minister from the West Indies, at a missionary meeting in England, is copied from the London Chronicle:
    "You will perceive a considerable increase in the income of the station during the past year. That increase has been chiefly owing to a great effort which the people are now making towards a new chapel. In many instances I was obliged to restrain their liberality. One incident occurred which I shall never forget. In calling over the names to ascertain how much they could give, I happened to call the name of "Fitzgerald Matthew." "I am here, sir," he instantly replied, and at the same time, I saw him hobbling with his wooden leg out of the crowd, to come up to the table pew, where I was standing. I wondered what he meant, for the others answered to their names without moving from their places. I was, however, forcibly struck with his apparent earnestness. On coming up, he put his hand into one pocket, ad took out a handful of silver wrapped in paper, and said with a lovely kind of abruptness, "That's for me, massa." "Oh," said I, "keep your money at present, I don't want it now, I only wanted to know how much you could afford to give; I will come for the money another time." "Ah massa," he replied, "God's work must be done, and I may be dead," and with that he plunged his hand into another pocket, and took out another handful of silver, and said, "That's for my wife, massa." Then he put his hand into a third pocket, and took out a somewhat similar parcel, and said, "That's for my child, massa," and at the same time giving me a slip of paper, which somebody had written for him, to say how much the whole was. It was altogether near £3 sterling-a large sum for a poor field negro with a wooden leg. But his expression was to me worth more than all the money in the world. I have heard eloquent preachers in England, and have felt, and felt deeply under their ministrations; but never have I been so impressed with anything they have said, as with the simple expression of this poor negro. Let me never forget it; let it be engraven on my heart; let it be my motto in all that I take in hand for the cause of Christ- 'God's work must be done, and I may be dead.'"

Woman.
Not she with trait'rous kiss her Savior stung, 
Not she denied him with unholy tongue; 
She, when apostles shrunk, could danger brave, 
Last at the Cross, and earliest at the grave. 

Public Opinion. 
    Laws do not change opinion, but opinion changes Law. 
    Public opinion is the Throne of a republic; and it is eloquently and correctly said by M. de Tocqueville, that "the greatest despotism on earth is an excited, untaught public sentiment ; and hence, we should not only hate despots, but despotism."
    "When I feel the hand of unjust power, I care little to know who oppresses me; the yoke is not easier, because it is held out to me by the hands of a million of men."
    The best means of correcting public sentiment, is to agitate it; for "when thought is agitated truth rises." Therefore, let light, by means of the Press, and the living voice, be poured upon the public mind.
    We must agitate: for Reform, like a top, will fall as soon as we stop whipping.
    We have not only to strike while the iron is hot, but we must make the iron hot by striking. 

AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY ALMANAC. 

"They can't take care of themselves."
    Two slaves in Louisiana were let out by their master, at a considerable distance from his own residence. They were skilful [skillful], intelligent mechanics, and of course he obtained high wages for their work. What time remained after their daily allotted tasks were finished, they were allowed to have for themselves ; and these precious hours they employed most industriously, with the view of purchasing their freedom. When they had accumulated, by patient toil, a sum which they deemed sufficient, they endeavoured to negotiate with their master; but without success.  Again they went to work; and after two or three years, were enabled to offer a sum so large, that they felt almost certain it would tempt him to accede to their wishes. But he found them too profitable to be lightly parted with ; moreover, whatever they had of property was in reality his. He might, with perfect impunity, have taken all their hard-earned wages, and kept them in slavery still, as thousands of slaveholders had done before him. But whether he doubted their having so much money as they pretended, or whether he was too honorable to steal more than ninety-nine hundredths of their earnings, I know not; at all events, he would not listen to their proposition on any terms. 
    Finding they could not purchase liberty, they wisely resolved to take it. The enterprise was a perilous one; for through a long line of slave States, they must run the gauntlet of patrols, blood-hounds, lynchers, jail-keepers, and rifles--and if they reached the States called free, they must dodge constables and kidnappers, backed by the glorious Constitution. 
    They were sufficiently intelligent and well-informed to understand the dangers they would incur, and to devise a most cunning method of avoiding them. 
    They made themselves acquainted with a white beggar and made him offers large enough to secure his secresy [secrecy]. They dressed him in a handsome suit of clothes, and through his agency purchased a carriage and a fine span of horses. They brought the carriage to an appointed place, stood hat in hand while he entered, and then mounted outside, as footman and groom. Of course no patrol thought of challenging such an equipage; and a white gentleman travelling [traveling] through the country, attended by his servants, was welcome at all the inns. The obsequiousness of their manners was an admonition to their brethren in bonds. "Yes,massa," and "Certainly, massa," were accompanied with the most profound bows, and spoken in the humblest tones. 
    The trio arrived in Buffalo unmolested ; there the carriage and horses were sold ; and the white beggar paid handsomely for consenting to play the gentleman. 
    The slaves passed over to Victoria's dominions, whence they wrote a very friendly letter to their whilom master, begging that he would feel no uneasiness on their account, as they were most comfortably situated.--L. M. C. 

Southern Paymasters. 
    At a late anti-slavery convention in Hamilton county, Ohio, S. P. Chase, Esq., said he had endeavored to ascertain the amount annually lost by the counties of Hamilton, Clermont, and Brown, through the inability of southern planters and merchants to pay their debts, contracted for produce and merchants sold to them on credit from those counties, and that so far as he could find data, the sum was equal to the taxes paid by those counties. The Hon. Thomas Morris confirmed this statement, and said moreover, that it was in reality greater than the amount of taxes thus paid. The daily professional business of these gentlemen is extending to all these counties, and they have every facility to ascertain the fact. 
    In looking over the June number of the Knickerbocker, we perceive the names of delinquent subscribers are published, with the sums that are due from each. The whole sum due from such subscribers in the number before us, is $173, of which sum $145 50 is due from southern subscribers, which is more than five-sixth of the whole. It is believed that there are ten numbers of the Knickerbocker taken at the north, where there is one at the south. If so, then we have indebtedness from the south about 60 to 1.