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[rrora IM (.lucago roat tuiiionai, or auaraAy.j NEGROES EMIGRATING.For some months past, the agent of the Haylien Government in this city. II. Ford Douglas, has been laboring to couvince the Africaus in Chicago, that it would be tor their interest to emigrate to lluyti. But ti e ageut of the Uaytien Government has met with rather poor success. Very few Africans have emigrated to liayti. The great majority of them have preferred to stay in Chicago, where they have so long enjoyed the glorious blessings of liberty and economy, with uo United States Marshal active enough to molest or make them afraid. Why should they change, especially as the change about to take place in the powers above them were to be in their favor.But the exodus which th * agent of the Hay-tien Government could not produce in the direction of Uayti has suddenly Bel in with a rush toward Caoada. Since the arrest of fugitive slaves by the U. S. Marshal, the departure of Africans to Her Mejesty’s American dominions has been remarakbly active. Two or three hundred have already left, and more are going. Every train on the Michigan Central railway that has left this city siuce Tuesday last, bes carried away from fifteen to a hundred. The large number of these emigrants serves to show something of the magnitude of this class of negroes that Chicago has harbored.Their departure will be a benefit to the city in many ways. It will benefit the free negroes by leaviug open to them the occupations previously filled by the runaways. It will benefit the poor white laborers in the same way. And it will rid the city of a bad name as the general rendezvous of this class of persons.The advice that John Wentworth gives to the (fugitive slaves in Chicago is the very best that could be given under the circumstances. If they have any respect Tor the law, let then return to their masters ; if they j havn’t, let them 44 make tracks v tor Canada. Chicago is a bad place for them.
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Daily Nashville Patriot
Nashville, Tennessee, US
Thu, Apr 11, 1861
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