Wheeling (VA) Daily Intelligencer, "Slavery in Kentucky," May 12, 1858

   SLAVERY IN KENTUCKY.––The Louisville Courier says there is now an extraordinary stampede of the slaves in that State. Negroes are daily escaping from their owners in startling numbers. They go off one, two, three, or a dozen at a time. That paper attributes this unusual movement to the presence of numerous Abolitionists. It says, "Black Republicans are as thick in these parts as wolves on a prairie.––It is almost respectable to be a nigger-stealer."