THE VICTIMS OF PRO-SLAVERY JUDICIAL
VENGEANCE.

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FRIEND DOUGLASS:—Again and again have
some of the earnest and self-sacrificing
friends of the slave been peculiarly ruined
by the vengeance of pro-slavery hearts, on
the charge of having assisted the fugitive on
his escape from the hands of the merciless
oppressor. At the present moment, persons
are under arrest for the performance of the
Christian deed of "entertaining strangers,"
and will, no doubt, like their heroic prede-
cessors, meet with fines quite too large for
their own resources. And if not so, still
they should not be left to bear these sacri-
fices alone. The friends of humanity, every-
where, should deem it a privilege to share in
them. "Bear ye one another's burdens," is
alike the law of Christianity and of human-
ity. Even the law of honor among associ-
ates, in the same enterprise, would dictate
our making common cause with those who
are in the van of the battle, and forced, by
their position, into the deadly breach.

What, I think, justice and a generous sympathy demand is, that a permanent fund
should be established to meet the cost and
losses in all those cases where any of the