Escape.
We find the following in the Gazette of October 28th:
"A BLACK STAMPEDE.––On Wednesday night of last week, ten salves from an interior county of Kentucky, crossed the river below this city and succeeded in making their escape thro' Hamilton county on their way to Canada.
Their owners, who arrived one day too late, appeared to be gentlemanly and honorable men, and stated that the slaves had been well treated and not over-worked, and having no cause of complaint except a rumor that two of their number, who were husbands, were to be sold to a Louisiana cotton planter."
The only reason why they were induced to dare at all the hardships and perils of a race to Canada was that the two who were husbands, were about to be sold to a Louisiana cotton planter! It certainly is marvelous that men should run away into Freedom, and take their wives with them for so slight a cause.
We suppose that all good, law-abiding, union-loving white husbands would have submitted quietly to be sold, and be separated from their wives forever.––Christian Press.
"Escape," New Lisbon (OH) Anti-Slavery Bugle, November 6, 1852