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The Sable Cloud

CHAPTER V
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Let these free blacks be mixed up in large proportions with society in England and Scotland, and if Canadians feel as they are here represented, we may be sure that the present tone of the British people with regard to American slavery and the blacks, would also be modified.

But here are the extracts:-- "Getting Sick of Them .-- The colored persons of Toronto, having had a meeting to denounce Colonel John Prince, a member of the Canadian Parliament, for speaking against them, he publishes a reply, in which he says,-- "'It has been my misfortune, and the misfortune of my family, to live among those blacks (and they have lived upon us) for twenty-four years.

I have employed hundreds of them, and with the exception of one, named Richard Hunter, not one of them has done for us a week's honest labor.

I have taken them into my service, fed and clothed them, year after year, on their arrival from the States, and in return have generally found them rogues and thieves, and a graceless, worthless, thriftless set of vagabonds.

This is my very plain and simple description of the darkies as a body, and it would be indorsed by all the Western white men, with very few exceptions.'" "Underground R.R.Return Trains .-- The 'Cleveland Plaindealer' states that every steamboat arriving at that place brings back from Canada families of negroes, who have formerly fled to the Provinces from the States.


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