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The Underground Railroad. ‘The Muscatine Journal, speaking of a re cent Slave Stampede in Northern Missouri and an unsucessful effort to overtake the fugitives, says: To escape from such a pursuit, with no lit tle advantage in the start, seems to argue the existence of that mysterious Structure, the “Underground Railroad.” If it is in op peration, it is wrong. Slaves are very well satisied with their situation and in many cases are not benefited by the change, while these occurences tend to nourish a danger ous feeling of hostility in one section to wards another. The Abolitionists may in this way procure the freedom of some ne groes, but they cause the masters of many more to sell them into worse slavery, further South. All the slaves in the neighborhoods whence these negroes escaped are supposed to have known of the matter beforehand, and will be encouraged by the result. This supposition will create a panic among slaveholders, and the first “nigger traders that comes along can pick up plenty of first rate bargains; and thus many a poor darkey will **go down de riber” who might have continued to remain in comparative comfort in the place of his birth.
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Quincy Daily Quincy Whig

Quincy, Illinois, US

Fri, Sep 08, 1854

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