NEGRO STAMPEDE--W.e learn that a stampede occurred among the negroes at and near Maysville, a few days ago. Five or six of the number belonged to a prominent and influential member of the Northern Methodist Church at Maysville. And we also understand that a distinguished preacher of that denomination was at the gentleman’s house at the time his negroes left.–-Covington (Ky.) Register.
And yet we are told by those whose purpose it best suits, that the Methodist Church North, gives no sanction to slavery, is in fact an anti-slavery organization. As the agitation on this question increases, we doubt not its members will have less and less to do with the system, as the pious brother at Maysvile will probably testify with a sorrowful countenance and a heavy heart, as he remembers the five or six negroes who have escaped from his grasp.
"Negro Stampede," New Lisbon (OH) Anti-Slavery Bugle, June 18, 1847