The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-06-20
Effects of Slave Stealing

| 1t is frequently said by the Abolitio mist
| that there are 10000 runaway negroes in
| Canada. They chuckle over this fact as if
it were anything more than conclusvei
| proof of the unmitigated rascality of these
| who, by assisting the fugitiYes to escape their
lawful masters have aided in consumating a
! successful robbery. 1t is seldom, however.
even in this world, that a wicked act is unre-
| warded with commensurate punishment
| The Canadians, who harbor these f1gitives.
are cursed with a lazy worthless population.
whose sole idea Of freedom consists in a vicious
| idlenass which is the strongest contrast to
! their former life Of peaceful industry. The un-
! fortunate negroes themselves, deluded bv
promise of liberty which they cannot compre-
bend by the hopes of privileges which they
can never be permitted to enjoy and by Wis
ions ofease and luxury which is destined new
er to have realized, long for the COM
forts of the homes and the warmth of the
skies they left behind them, while thew starye
in the midst of community which despises
them, and die by inches beneath the rigors of
climate as fatal to them as the mias1na of
the tropics is fatal to the white man. But it
is our own people at the North who feel the
greater weight of retributon. They feel if
although ignorant of its effects. They feel
it in the enhanced price Of cotton-the mater
ial which regulates the exchanges of the world
and pays for more than halfof the vast amount
of goods imported annually in the great marts
of Northern commerce 1t is said as we have
before remarked, that there are 10000 runaway
negroes in Canada. There are lOOOOmore
scattered tiroa4el4St4s the Northern VA -.
These make 10000 negroes that have been sub
traeted from the laboring population of the
Southern States, by the Vaccinations of the
Greeleys, Stewards and Summers. whose trade
is to shrek for freedom and encourage the
stealing Of negroes. Every negrl employed
in agricultural llbor at the South. is catnbIe
ofproducing 10 bales of cotton Der anpum so
that these 10000 negroes EMPLOYED rs they
ought to be employed for their own benefit as |
well as the benefit of civilized society. would |
produce 100000 bales Of cotton per annum. |
The total cotton crop of the United States is |
about 100000 bales. An addition Of one |
seventh to the crop would reduce the price at |
least one cent and half per pound The |
amount OF cotton consumed in the United |
States is 100000 bales of 35OOOOOO0 pounds.
A reduction Of a cent and half a round on
this amount would be saving of s., 10000
per annum. Thus it is perfectly clear that
the stealing of these 10000 negroes costs the
northern people over five million dollars
a year, or in ten years fifty millions ofdollars.
Every negro stolen from his master, costs
their northern people S132 year in the en-
HANGED price OF cotton. We submit that this
is pretty high to pay for keeping up the under
ground railway and enabling the abolitonists
to indulge in the luxuryof slave stealing
1 he amount thus lost wonld in twenty years
build the Pacific railroad. How long will our
people close their eyes against the plainest
truths OF political economy? How long will
hey permit abolition traitors and thieves to {
plumber them with impdnity the words /
u cicero to Catalina, GLOW long, how long
shall they abuse our patience p