Louisville (KY) Journal, “‘U. G.’ Railroad Statistics,” March 14, 1859

Source citation
“‘U. G.’ Railroad Statistics,” Louisville (KY) Journal, March 14, 1859, p. 3: 2.
Newspaper: Publication
Louisville Daily Journal
Newspaper: Headline
"U. G." Railroad Statistics
Newspaper: Page(s)
3
Newspaper: Column
2
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Transcription date
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

“U. G.” RAILROAD STATISTICS. – Mr. C. S. Spencer (Rep.) of the New York Assembly, in a speech relating to the “personal liberty bill” now before that body, said he had in his hand a list of fugitives who had gone through Albany between June 1st, 1858, and Jan. [1,?] 1859, on their way from the slave States to freedom. They were 176 in number – one of them was a slave of a U. S. Senator; one of them was the property of a deacon of a Baptist church in Virginia.

This is making pretty fair progress, but does not look like the immediate [extinction?] of slavery. Supposing there were but 3,000,000 slaves in the country one year ago, this leaves a balance of 2,900,824 colored passengers to be provided for, making no allowances for natural increase in the meantime.

Underground Railroad
Albany, NY
Canada
Virginia
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