Prospects of the South.

  Some time since a short paragraph appeared in this journal, amongst other items, in which an opinion was expressed, that fugitive slaves were "by no means a desirable class of immigrants for Canada." We took occasion at the time to explain, that the remark was intended to apply solely to those, who, by the brutalizing effects of their past position, and the deprivation of Christian education, were really unfit to be entrusted with the rights of freemen, in a country where freedom is so largely developed as in Canada. We expressed no opinion adverse to the encouragement of a respectable colored immigration, whether slaves or otherwise; and certainly we had no idea of refusing a place of refuge to any man, whatever his deficiencies or vices, whose position as a refugee from the tyranny of tyrannies —personal slavery—gave him a pre-eminent claim upon every feeling of humanity. With these few remarks, we cheerfully insert below a communication:

To the Editor of the Colonist.

  GOOD MR. EDITOR,—What were you thinking of when you let slip such paragraph as that about fugitives: was it in some fit of inspiration, or merely a chance remark. Be as it may, you have acquired a wide-spread popularity by it. It was a perfect God-send to Southerners,—every paper in the land has copied it with appropriate remarks.—"A British journal" saying that British soil ought not to be the house and refuge of the oppressed, that Britain was weary of her "man stealing," and property might be secured even if they did have to face Northern abolitionists. Canada is returning to a sense of justice, and will soon be the ally of the South. They have really found a "mare's nest" in your paragraph.

  Do you intend taking a trip South this summer—if so, just write another such paragraph, and then "chalk your hat." "The rejoicing over the one sheep that was lost" would be nothing to it.

  It may be a fact as you say, that fugitive slaves are not exactly the emigration to encourage. But why not? True they bring little capital; and are little able, without direction, to set up for themselves; yet is not that the case with much of the emigration from the old country. They bring strong backs and willing minds, and is there any evidence to shew that they will not make a valuable acquisition to the population of the country. You may suppose I may have some connection with the "Under Ground Railroad," but such is not the case. I have been among slaves for a year, and have never before said or written against the system, but have thought the more. With all the palliating circumstances half the evils have not been told. It is a double curse, a curse to the race enslaved and to the masters. They may tell of the noble and generous feelings, the love of learning, the chivalry and chastity of Southerners,—it is all bragadocia. A Southerner at home is a tyrant, impetuous and overbearing; he is wanting in that true courage, that makes men calmly front danger, and his honor and chastity are never mentioned. The town is supplied with some learned men, and some gentlemen, but the country is filled with ignorance and vice. From his childhood up the slaveholder gratifies every brutal passion of his nature: and who are the victims of his brutality, his slaves, men and women, who in all but color are his superiors. This is no over-drawn picture. Now and then one of these "chattels" by dint of perseverance escapes, and do you refuse a foot of land in the only asylum this side the grave? It cannot be, it must have been only a slip of the pen and not the heart that dictated such a paragraph. Slaves many of them long for liberty and know the toils and pains of it, they are not contented, as they will tell when there is an ear that they dare tell their complaints in.

  A fearful day of retribution is coming, the disunion of these States is as sure as their present union, and at no distant date. The late Kansas outrage demonstrates that this is no longer a land of freedom, even to the whites, and this will hasten the crisis.

  Anarcy and confusion will follow. But one train of intelligence, and one spark of knowledge is wanting now, to make the millions of bondmen rise on their masters. It is the fear of this that makes the South so fearful that intelligence may be disseminated among the blacks. Insurrection of slaves is a thing but little talked of, but I have seen brave men grow pale as some one whispered it.

  The elephant, ignorant and docile, is led by a tiny cord, an apt emblem of slavery at present, but the enraged brute destroying, all before it will be the emblem by and by. There are men here who fear this and know it, and forsee it approaching with disunion. It is slaveholding America that is the ally of slaveholding Russia.

  They may say Uncle Tom's cabin is a fiction, an exaggeration. But with little variation every plantation could furnish all the materials and much more that could not be written.

  It is my prayer that Canada may encourage such emigration, and always afford an asylum to the slave, and I trust too, that it will be so until an asylum is provided nearer by.

Yours, &c.,

B.R. FINCH.

Jackson, Miss., June 2nd, 1855.