Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-12-25
The Underground Railroad What
il Costs the People of the North.


ic paper published at lronion. Law
renee county, Ohio, into which it was
copied from the paper to which it
is credited at the end. The source
from whence If emanated, consider
ing the style in which subject OF
interest throughout the whole coun-
try is treated, lends to the article
double interest and we commend it
to the perusal Of our readers. If
such facts and arguments were clear
ly presented to the minds Of the
Northern masses they could not fail
of beneficial effect, except upon
such funatics rs have been given o.
yer to their idols:
EFFECT OF SLAVE STEALINa.--It is
frequently said by the abolitionists
that there are $4,000 runaway ne
groes in Canada. They chuckle
over this fact as if it were anything
more than aconclusiyo proof of the
unmitigated rascality Of those who,
by assisting the fugitives to escape
from their lawful masters, have aided
in consummating a successful robbery.
1t is seldom, however, even in this
world, that a wicked act is unreward-
Cd with commensurate punishment.
The Canadians, who barbor these fu-
gitives, are cursed with lnzy worth
less population, whose sole idea Of
freedom consists in vicious idle
ness which is the strongest contrast
to their former life of peaceful in
dustry. The unfortunate negroes
themselves deluded by promises of a
liberty which they cannot compre-
bend; by hopes Of privileges which
they can never be permitted to en-
JOY; and BY visions of ease and lux
ury which are destined never to be
realized; long for the comforts of the
homes aud the warmth of the skies
they have left behind them, while
they starve in the midst of com,
munity which desp;ses them, and die
by inches beneath the rigors Of q
climate as fatal to them as the mias
ma of the tropics is fatal to the white
man. But it is our own people al
the North who feel the greater ret,
ribution. They feel it, although ig
norant of its effects. They feel il
in the enhanced price Of cotton
the material which regulates the ex
changes of the world aud pays fol
more than half of the vas. amount O
goods imported annually into thu
great marts of Northern commerce
: It is said, as we have before remark
ed, that there are $4,000 runaway
negroes In Canada. There are a
least 10000 more scattered through
the Northern States. These 10000
negroes have been Subtracted from
the laboriug population Of the South
ern States, by the Vaccinations Q
the Greelys, and Stewards, and Sum
ners; whose trade is to shrek 70
freedom and encourage the stealin
Of negroes. Every negro employee
in agricultural labor at the South
capable OF producing ten bales {
cotton per annum, SO that these 40
900 negroes, employed as they ough
to be employed for their own benefi
as well as the benefit Of civilized SC
ciety, would produce 100000 bale
of cotton per annum. The total GRO
Of the United States is about 5000
900 bales. An addition of one sey
enth to the crop would reduce th
price at least one cent and ha
per pound, The amount of cotio
consumed in the United States
100000 bales or 100000
pounds. A reduction of cent an
a half pound on this amount woul
be a saving Of S5,250,000 per al
mum. Thus it is perfectly clear tina
the stealing Of these 10000 negroe
costs the Northern people over fiv
million dollars year, or in te
years $4,000. Every negro stole
from his master costs the Mort
1882 year in the enhanced pric
of cotton. We submit that this ]
pretty high to pay for keeping U
the underground railroad and EN-
bling the abolitionist to indalge
the luxury Of slave-stealing III
amount thus lost would, in twent