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To us, whose fathers scorned to bear
The paltry menace of a chain.
To us, whose boast is loud and long,
Of holy liberty and light;
Say, shall these writhing Slaves of wrong,
Plead vainly for their plundered rights?
Southern authorities are forward to claim indemnity from the Free States, when they can prove that the rights of Slaveholders are infringed. A coloured man, wrongfully accused of grand larceny, (a pretext for procuring him as a Slave), was, on his own confession, sent to the State Prison, in the State of New York, for two years, and pardoned one day before his time expired. On a representation of the facts to Mr. George Hunt, he was sent to Canada. A Dr. Allen Thomas, of Howard County, Maryland, claimed him as his Slave, and demanded indemnity from the State of New York. The Legislature, and Governor of Maryland, endorsed the claim, and forwarded it to the Governor and Legislature of New York. My authority is Frederick Douglass' Paper, April 22, 1853.
I suppose, however, no indemnity was ever made. Slaveholders endeavour to make the State Government a vehicle to pay them for their runaway Slaves.
To secure individual aid, they offer money, as the following will show:—In the counties of Mason and Bracken, Kentucky, an association is formed to assist
