The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-05

ton Of fugitive blacks Into tie raitsp Who "prcciess
liberty" and "gauug bonds inv aliibe ais pot.
teal har argues, the practical who pays hi' hard
dollars the call OF protested phiaplnIopts, to assist
the poor slave" may well inquire whether the obisJt
OF his charity is actually benefited is only niarei ana
degraded thereby.
AT this time, such questions are pertlaert ana inr'r
tant The evil effects 0f tie rrepressble CONNECT prac
lcay carried out whether by the systematic stealing OF
Slaves or by murder and instruction, apparent in the
distracted condition OF the Union and the III blood between
the s,ates SURELY and that the acts which produce
these Ills are mlschcvous aud baneful to the shve-a
curse to him aud society instead Of blessing shall
be worse than insane not TO apply the remedy.
The underground railroad is myth. A regular
ganzaton, to which this has applied,
through every free State IN the Union has It's agents
and emssaIies the borders OF every slave State and
nlOpga the travelled by fugitive slaves sys.
tematzed association Of negroes and republican abolition
whites having for its object the entcing away OF the
slave property OF the South, its safe Transportation
into Canada has regular subscribers to its capital stock
10 large amount, and amongst them In our State
may be found the names Of the most prominent p,h.
clans in the republican party. The republican abolition
organs affect rdcule the dea OF the existence OF any
Systematic organization Of the kind but the editors the
very papers that would dscedt the story record their
subscriptions upon the books OF the association wher
tive agents Of the road applications for all with
better grace from them than from whites; but
in every city in the State o. New York and 10 all places
Of note along the States bordering upon Canada the white
aboliionsts interested In tee subscriptions, aad
gang OF them live id,crcss and upon the PROFITS
As before remarked, large number conservative,
honorable funds underground
railroad under the erroneous belief that they dong
charitable and Christian net, While in fact every dollar
hay " THEFT pptphhore n nj
the Union, and premium Of tho grosses swndles
ever perpetrated IN the nam of philanthropy
Some idea Of the shreHdness and unscrupuousness Of
the spectators engaged in this business may be Afforded
by the exposure Of trick, practsed week after
week, for the purpose OF swelling the funds gang OF
negroes numbering from three ten is gathered in New
York; the composing this gang represented
fugives from slavery; but it has been runored
that times, when ruuaways scarce and money
needed. any idle niger Is hired to pass an
escaped slave These exhibited to the charitable
in New York by the agent OF the underground railroad
and story is told of their suerngs the road OF their
present destuton and Of the lack of funds help them
onward on their journey To land Of freedom" 1t is
seldom that this appeal fails, and snug sum is gene
rally collected in New York to assist the flight of the fug
tive TO Canada But as these poor fellows flying
80 swiftly from oppression reach Albany, they de-
tanned at that depot, and again put practical as
a OF raising money. The respectable colored
agent Of the underground railroad In that city
parades them amongst the charlottesville same tale OF
their suneriugs, their destltuton, and the lack of
means help them into Canada, is repeated and
other contribution exor,ed from those who inclined
10 credit the story. From Albany the g property is
frequently transported TO Troy, and there, and at
every city thence the Canada line the made
of the poor ueves, and the cash OF the credulous
flows into the pockets of these underground railroad
eneculators an remains The stpoor
ceves just sufficient keep body and soul together,
until be lands in Canada half clad beggar
The underground railroad is not always worked under
its Its character is often concealed by
Of alias, and the money collected for its object
obtained under false representations Colored schools"
and Homes and Missions, hearty all of them the
underground railroad under mask. leading paper in
Detroit, the Free Pres recently made the following expo
son Of the real character Of association in that city,
known ss "rhe Refugees Home Society,"" the osensble
object Of whieh TO secure hcmeseads for the fugitive
black
7H Tay nothing De- than ne grand receiring
es a e. e & Re- eoy oe s a Sss Sao
Of he @ e. sTs s esn Of or
lion between me South aud this frontier ,,, 80,
cey 1he memsers of doubtless bold that they doing
Shsf i s o. 1nd e' tSd yh ss be-
doing Gcds service when he stole horses well
Seyeand and dsSered The later I, the sfases aome so,
Ss L @ s We dSS % e Sa $ 9qs he
refugee Home Society is capable Of dslnsushng between
te a re- We sss
them to the example st Paul, the Aposepreuy good
h9riy wh mos! shrsans,'ho Ger, fugitive save back
with any hope effect But there aspect opera
tons Of the society to which do wish to direct the public
soceyis he grand reiri4g ipo, nis frontier ef0s
he Ts e}%s dty AMI sici on ssr side Of &c rsr
II may be proper to that the persons connected
ters white and black deny the truth Of the charge thus
made against them but from the operations Of the So
cety alluded to elsewhere in this report, will be
that looks abroad Tor charity on an extended scale, and
that II not designed for the objects Indicated by the De-
troN paper, very likely prove profitable land
speculation to the phiiantlropsts engaged in it,
Viewing it, however, in the most favorable light in
which II represents itself Ia certainly, like all similar
enterprises part and parcel OF the underground railroad
Scheme, by which negroes are entced say, or stolen
from the savehodng states OF the Union in violation Of
the law and the constitution aud placed under the protec
ton of reignbcrng foreign government, by which
Fortunately the aT and Ihe constitution can be set at de-
fance. Offers, PROCESSES TO oie premium to slaves
escape from III South y TO the Caun,ia borders
and thus aids ooirecty not directly, in the systematic
negro stealing OF the North.
There are in fact, two separate organizations Of the
Underground Railroad kind in existencethe old Tippan
and Gerrh Smith organization and one OF more recent
date, in which the New York Ti5gse holds prominent
position The heaaquariers Of the former are at IS Beck
street. New York and Nessrs ppan and Joscelyn
whites and Charles B. Ray, coored preacher the
I. resident directors The Office of the o.ner is at No
Beekman street, and William H. Leonard aud Sidney Cay
Of the tribune, arc the who "run the machine
sisted by the ether editors Of Mr. Grecleys paper. Reg
lar books subscription opened in New York aud
other cities, and the names enrolled in them represent
Is all and conditions Of men, from United
States Senator'S down
THE NEGROES IN CANADA.
At the southwest point OF the Province Of Canaia Is
q neck of land running down between Lake Erie
and the Detroit river, Lake ST. Clair and
the st. Clair river. II contains the counties
OF Essex and Kent the warnes portion Of the province
and is In those counties that the negroes who have
escaped from the States mainly congresate. Windsor,
situated on the river directly opposite Detroit, the west
terminus Of the Great Western Railway and the
township Of Sandwich Essex county On the south and
southwest OF Sandwich along the Detroit ani Lake
Erie the townships Of Anderdon Maiden Cochesc
Goeneld Mersea and Romney. In the three first
townships, the negroes found in large numbers, and
tobacco growing carried there a considerable