The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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The Gulf States and Fugitive slaves.

The idea prevails to some extent that the Gulf States have no reason to complain of the nullifying acts of the North, because they do not lose any negroes by escape. Well established facts prove this to be a mistake. According to the census of 1850, those States suffer nearly as much as the border States in this way. In 1850, the whole number of slaves which escaped was 1,011, and they were from the several States as follows:

Alabama	29
Missouri	60
Arkansas	21
Delaware	26
Florida	18
Georgia	89
Kentucky	96
Louisiana	90
Maryland	279
Mississippi	41
North Carolina	64
South Carolina	66
Tennessee	70
Texas	29
Virginia	83
Total	1,011

The New York Times thinks the number has since increased full fifty per cent., which would give 1,500 a year, the aggregate value of which is $1,500,000. It will be seen that while the loss of the border States is of course much the greatest Georgia, in 1850, lost within seven as many as Kentucky, and Louisiana within six as many; so that the popular idea that the extreme Southern States do not suffer in this way is erroneous.