UP TO THE JERRY LEVEL. - It will be seen by an extract in our present number from the "Milwaukee Sentinel," that another rescue has been effected - and that the slave-catching bill has been again trampled in the dust by the indignant and outraged citizens. The event may well be connected with the Nebraska swindle. The sentiment of the people of the north hereafter, is likely to be, down with all Compromises [with] the perfidious traffickers in human flesh. Our fined, GEO. DEBAPTIST, now by our side, tells us that a larger business was never done on the under ground Railroad at Detroit, than has been done since the passing of the Fugitive Slave Law - that eight of nine liberty loving passengers arrive at that important station in a day - and on one day there arrived at that port THIRTY NINE IN GOOD CONDITION. - Thus are the plans of the wicked defeated, and the cause of COLONIZATION in Canada progresses.

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