Improvement of the Harper's Ferry Idea.
...The house of refuge for runaway slaves by that event be brought down from Canada to the frontiers of Maryland and Virginia, and Kentucky and Missouri. No amount of vigilance could prevent stampedes on a far greater scale than that on which they have hitherto been conducted. The value of Slavery in all the States bordering on the north would rapidly depreciate, and the only security for that species of property would be in sending it immediately to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico....
[Editor's Note: The majority of this article has been omitted from our transcription except for the portions directly the term "slave stampedes" or some variant.]
"'Improvement' of the Harper's Ferry Idea," Washington (DC) National Era, November 17, 1859, p. 2