Missionaries Among The Fuigitives in Canada

The following is an extract from the letter of a well known friend in Ohio:

"There are some meddling, mischievous, (I will not yet say wicked,) colored men, who are going about through the upper Province of Canada, and also in the States, traducing the character of the missionaries who are laboring among the fugitives from bondage on the other side of the lakes. I know many of the missionaries there, but am personally acquainted with Hiram Wilson and Isaac J. Rice, and can testify that two more laborious, SELF-DENYING, honest men do not exist on any missionary ground. These devoted men, instead of being maligned, should be encouraged and assisted by all philanthropists, and especially by all colored people who have any influence.

At present, I will not name the traducers of these men of God; but I know them well, and, if necessary, can tell you much about them.

Beware of these men, if they should come to you for the purpose above named; and cease not, my brother, to hold up the heads of the missionaries in Canada.

H. H.