New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-11-17
SLAVERY IN MISSOURI AND MARY
LAND.


tl,e course Of d few years. Nor do they calculate
without reason or force Slavery in those common.
ealths. Is continually depleted by emigration farther
South and this depicting process gathers volume and
strength daily by the practice Of slave stealing which
the border Abolitionts constantly and Systematically
indulge in The safety Of the property being perled
the owner takes the best and only means Of securing
it, by sending it to region where Northern rogues
and sconndrels dare not attempt to carry on their
nearous trade But for the thiegsh propensities of
the Abotonists the institution might last many
years perhaps perpetually the annual increase sup
plying the vacancies created by annual emigration
but the losses by theft are 50 numerous, and the
forced emigration, it were, caused thereby, is so
great, that successful Free Labor alias Freesoil
movement, may be anticipated in both States at no
distant day.
We have felt it duty to keep our readers posted
in regard to the slavery question in the border States
and we believe we have done so pretty thoroughly
and accurately. We shall continue to do so hereaE
ter And when the outposts fall, as we fear they
must in few years, we shall announce the fact with
sorrow and regret but shall have the proud satisfac
ton Of knowing that our duty in the premises was
fully discharged, that constituents were correctly
Informed Of what going all the time, and that
no stakeholder have just reason to complain of
US. Then as matter of course, those seEsuficieut
1 gentlemen, who now term us ultra in our views, will
see that we were right. and perhaps acknowledge
their error, but then it viii be too late.
It's always dangerous to undervalue an enemy
and it is frequently the part of wisdom to take coun
sci Of an enemy. AS we have never undervaued the
strength of the enemies of the South we now propose
to take counsel from one of their chief organs and by
quoting from it literally to show our readers what
they calculate upon in the near future So that they
too, may also take counsel. No harm, but much
good may result from such advice and from the pur
suit Of such course
/ In the New York Tribune of the 8th inst long
and bitter article against slavery and shareholders ap
4 peared. from which we extract the following para
graphs
1t is not alone in the State Of Missouri that move
4 ment has been commenced evidently destined to 90
on till slavery s abolished in that State. move.
rnent having the same tendency, though different in
its origin and character is also in progress in Mary
| land
/ In Missouri the mass Of the white laborfnc men
are rising to deliver themselves from the degrading
debasng and blighting contact of slave labor and to
| free themselves from the nsolent domination which
little handful of Shareholders have so long exercised
/ over them and the State In Maryland, it is the
/ shareholders who have taken the initiative From
the growing unpopuarity of slavery among the white
4 aborng men of that State, of whom the larger part
are no longer ulspQsed 10 act as scouts, spes faeTs
/ and bo0dhounds for the Shareholders, and from the
| spread Of information among the slaves as to the
| North Star and the regions lying in that direction
4 the disposition to run away has Of late greatly in
| creased among the Maryland negroes and at the
same time, the facilities forit Indeed, it would seem
that the Underground Railroad connecting the slave
holding frontier with Canada had heen extended into
/ the very heart Of Maryland ITSELF The consequent
losses Of the Maryland Shareholders have created a
1 high degree Of excitement among them.
Il The above ia the suprestiye nDpninp IF the Tri
bune's article. Speaking of the recent efforts of
1 the Shareholders Of the border counties Of Mary.
land to protect themselves and their property from
the incursions of the slave-steaeys accompanied by
false and malicious observations the Tribune proceeds
to enforce its assumption that Maryland is destined
speedily to become free State, by citing the sub
/ Joined figures:
I BY the census Of 1850, the State Of MARYLAND con
4 tanned 4l7,943 white people, by whom 4825 were
owners of one slave, 33l Of from two to four slaves
327 Of from five to nine slaves 1872 of from ten to
nineteen slaves, 655 Of from twenty to forty-nine
slaves ~ Of from fifty TO ninetynine slaves Of from
one hundred to one hundred and ninoty.nne slaves
and Of from three to five hundred slaves; in the
/ whole, 5000 Shareholders out of white population
of 4l7942. These 5000 Shareholders or allowing
each of them to have family Of five persons which
is exceedingly liberal these $4,000 persons interested
| IN slave property own among them 90,36S slaves.
There are also in Maryland "a 723 free c0lOred per-
sons, OF whom it appears that 1858 are nativeborn
inhabitants Of the State Ii is upon this large body
afree cOlored persons in the veins of considerable
number of whom rms some of the hest blood of Mary
land that the shareholders of the Eastern shore have
4 turned their greedy eyes They Gooy propose after
maligning and backening the character of these peo.
pie as much as they can, to reduce the whole Of them
to slavery, thus indemnifyng themselves we suppose
for their losses by flight, and at the same time pro-
yidng fund by means of which to buy up the aid of
sufficient number of the white Observation-Disclosures to
assist them IN carrying ont this grand scheme of kid
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