New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-22

Estfssf5xlE VIZ STAY rs

We sre told sometimes by the people, os M
border slave States that we, of the eStre me Snuth
have bat little reason 10 complain of t.e nulIifyiue
laws Of the Northern Legislatures II. the matter d
arresting fugitive slaves Theyre ard ii as stsnce
that we exhibit much sensitive ness oI, this ,ont
/ when, as is asserted, We rarely lose a slave BY
escape, while the bulk of thu loss. in this respect
fallsupon the States Of the border.
1 The idea is erroneous. A reference q the cen.
sus returns Of 1850 will show That with the excep
ton Of Maryland the scape of slaves from al the
States of the South ia about in The equal pronor
ton Of their teFri'.ory and population Thus,
dagsng that year. the whole nefSaer that escaned
| was little over one thousand. Of these Virginia
lost only S., while louisiana with not one half the
Eonsiation, lost So Georgia lost &c. and Missouri,
Ia 6 border State, lost only So Tennessee lost
/ 20, and Mississippi4l. Kentucky, with her whole
Northern Boundary exposed lost during that wear.
only six rxore than louisiana
Thus, the Gulf States have as much reason ia
compaen, in pecnniaEy sense, of Northern negro.
stealing and Of underground railroads as the States
Of the border have The South loses, in all, about
g million and half of dollars every year in this
way If the tables were turned and we were TO
encourage the stealing of that amount every year
froEn the North We suspect Giddings and Sumner
aad Garrison and Greeley would howl with rage at
the idea. II makes wonderful difference, these
days, whose bull it is that cores the OK.
Louisiana is, in TRUTH as much of a border State
as Virginia. Its not the land border, but the sea
border, that facilitates the escape Of slaves A
large proportion of them are concealed on Yankee
vessels, commanded by Abolition captains They
are inveigied on board lied to about the blessings
OF q freedom in the North secreted and carried
ofi, 70 starye and SILVER in the cold blasts of a
Northern climate It is curious fact that the
Federal laws give protection and monopoly, SO far
as the coasting trade is concerned, to those very
Yankee vessels that come here to make money out
OF us, aud then return the favor by stealing our
property.
But It is not the question of the dollars involved
that eKcites the indignation of the South The
South, fortunately, could stand the loss Of million
aud half annually, Of ten times that much, and
not feel it. She is plundered, in other ways, of
fifty times that much every year, and has been so
piundered, through the partial and ubiquitous on.
GRAFTON of the Federal Government for many years
past IL is not SO much the matter Of the money
lost in fugitive slaves it is the spirit Of hostility
and hate which prompts the Northern people TO
pass laws to prevent their return in the face of the
Constitutional mandate. This it is which offends
the South, and this it is that we do not intend to
complain of any longer, bnt mean to solve the
whole question by cutting loose forever from all
political association with such people. There
are some Southern people who believe that, even
IN the DnIon, the harboring and concealing or the
rescue ofa fugitive slave is sufficient cause of war
against the community guilty of such robbery and
laWlessness. When we get ont of the Union we
suppose there will be hardly two opinions in the
c. II, TADl- Hr