Cincinnati (OH) Commercial Tribune, "Slave Stampede," May 17, 1862

                  Slave Stampede.

    [Baltimore Correspondence N.Y. Post]

   There is no longer any doubt, that the slave stampede from this State is sweeping hundreds out of bondage. One neighborhood in Prince George's has lost twenty-seven, and it is thought that not less than three hundred have escaped from that region of moral darkness. Masters are therefore beginning to consider seriously the question of compensated emancipation.

   We suppose the secesh of Maryland will credit the Abolitionists with the slave stampede, but if they had not the asphyxis nigrum, they would see that the disunion movement of the extreme South was especially cruel and ruinous to the Border Slave States. If there is any part of the country in which the hostility of the people to the secesh should be hotter than in any other, it is that comprised in the Border Slave States. And yet they abound with servile sycophants, who are rolling up their eyes all the time about Abolitionists, and looking to the rebel leaders as their lords and masters, and to the good old Democratic party, as a means to regain supremacy in the nation.