[558] Mr. Gallatin to Mr. Clay, Sept. 26, 1827, Niles' Register, p. 290.
[559] Congressional Globe, Twenty-fifth Congress, Third Session, p. 34.
[560] The Patriot War defeated a foolhardy attempt to induce the Province of Upper Canada to proclaim its independence. The refugees were by no means willing to see a movement begun, the success of which might "break the only arm interposed for their security." J. W. Loguen as a Slave and as a Freeman, p. 344.
[561] Nineteenth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, January, 1851, p. 67.
[562] Interview with Elder Anthony Bingey, Windsor, Ontario, July 31, 1895. On this point Dr. S. G. Howe says: "Of course it [the Fugitive Slave Law] gave great increase to the emigration, and free born blacks fled with the slaves from a land in which their birthright of freedom was no longer secure." Refugees from Slavery in Canada West, p. 15.
[563] Independent, Jan. 18, 1855.
[564] Independent, April 6, 1855; see also Von Holst's Constitutional and Political History of the United States, Vol. V, p. 63, note.
[565] Drew, A North-Side View of Slavery, 1856, p. 340.
[566] Ibid., p. 91.
[567] Detroit Sunday News Tribune, quoted by the Louisville Journal, Aug. 12, 1894.