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Voice Against Begging*The following is a condensed sketch of the pro-! ceedings of a mass meeting held last week at Am-, herstburgh, against the Mission House and its Begging Agents:Whebeas, We, the colored inhabitants of Am-herstburgh, Malden, and vicinity, consider the practice ®f sending out agents from Canada to the States, to beg in the name of a “Missionary Board,*' “Mission House, Ac., on the credit and in the name of Fugitives from American Slavery,—whom we have good reason, to believe never received more than one cent out of the dollar of what ia collected in their names,; while the balance is used for the benefit of the agents who collect dt—is a disgrace to the cause of,the fugitive: and whereas, our Government has made an ample provision for. taking care of our poor, as the people of the States* have lor theirs; and as it is well known that every fugitive who lands here, can get work at liberal wages the very day that he arrives:1. Resolved, therefore, That we regard-the so-called “Mission House”.at Amherstburgh; together with its begging agents, as a great curse and disgrace to the Refugees in Canada.2. Resolved, That we recommend the friends of humanity in the States, to give to the fugitives what they may have for them before they cross the line to Canada, anti tell them that it is a plentiful country, and that if'they will only worlc half as hard here for themselves as they did in the South for their masters, they will soon be independent, and will place themselves beyond the reach of want. ' • ' ‘ .3. Resolved, That we request Henry Bibb to publish the proceedings of this meeting in the Voice of the Fugitive.t with a request that all antislavery papers in the States that sympathise with , the fugitives here, should copy the same.JOHN HATFIELD, Pwrfr.0. Ross, Secretary.
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Indianapolis Indiana Free Democrat
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 30, 1854
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