Slaves, Western Maryland

An Auspicious Move

FOR THE BALMY SOUTH.

The Hagerstown Jail is filled with Negroes, only sixty-nine having been deposited in it, on Wednesday last. They are the property of the late Judge John Buchanan, and are for sale. The fanatics of the North ought to purchase them.— But interest precedes phylantrophy ; does it not you men of all words and no meaning ?

AID TO FLEEING SLAVES

The Message of Gov. Thomas is a well-written, sensible and important document. It contains, however, one sentiment upon which the people are divided, he says, in speaking of our country and political institutions, "all men are born free and equal." His excellency is a sensible man and meant what he said, and does not consider negroes human beings. Negroes who are born in Pennsylvania are on an equality with white men while those which are born Maryland are on an equality with brutes; a species of the Orang-outang.

EMIGRATING TO PENNSYLVANIA

Something Wrong.

We mentioned in our last, that fifteen Negroes had absconded from their masters in this County, on last Saturday night, and we have since been informed that two more of Mr. Dall’s Negroes runaway on Monday night There is evidently a secret influence at work in this County, which, if not dis covered and frustrated, will, ere ten years elapse, effect a total abolition of Slavery.

THE HERALD OF FREEDOM

Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1846.

A DINNER.—The colored folks have projected and are preparing a dinner for next Tuesday afternoon, in the Bethel Church. It is under the direction of their Beneficiary Society

A lady in Weverton appeals through the New York Journal of Commerce for contributions amounting to $150 to purchase the freedom of James Dent, an old slave, in order that he may emigrate to Liberia where his wife and four children went several years ago, having been liberated by their master. He has raised $100 by his own labor but $150 more is required to secure his liberation.

A Fugitive.

A man in Massachusetts has written to Hagerstown, that a fugitive slave of the late Col. Frisby Tilghman, who ran away 20 years ago, and who is now in Canada, will give $100 if his freedom papers are sent to him. So says the Mail of last week.