Historical Documents

   NEGRO STAMPEDE––No less than thirty negroes, left Cambridge, Md., by the underground railroad on Saturday night. Fifteen belonging to Samuel Pattison, Esq., seven belonging to Mrs. Jane Cator; three belonging to Richard Keene; one belonging to W.V. Brannock; one belonging to Reuben E. Philps; one belonging to the estate of Wm. D. Traverse, deceased, and two free negroes. These make forty-four who have left there within three weeks. 

   A great stampede of slaves took place at Cambridge, Md., on Saturday night last. No less than thirty made their escape. 

   A stampede of slaves from the plantation of Mr. D.S. Dillon, Bourbon county, Ky., took place last week. 

   SLAVE STAMPEDE.––The night of Oct. 24th, no less than 30 slaves ran away from Cambridge Maryland. The owners have offered a reward of $3,100 for their apprehension. Forty-four escaped from Cambridge in two weeks. 

   A great stampede of slaves took place at Cambridge, Md., on Saturday night, the 24th. No less than thirty made their escape, making forty-four who have absconded within two weeks. 

   A GREAT stampede of slaves took place at Cambridge, Md., on Saturday night last. No less than thirty made their escape––fifteen belonging to Samuel Pattison, Esq., seven to Miss Jane Carter, one to Richard Keene; one to W.V. Brannock; one to Reuben D. Phillips; one to the estate of Wm. D. Traverse, deceased, and two free negroes. These make forty four who have left that place within two weeks. Messrs. Pattison Phillips and Brannock had offered a reward of $3,100 for the apprehension of their slaves. 

   NEGRO STAMPEDE––Last Sunday night, a family of negroes belonging to George W. Fairfax of Preston county, Va., father and mother and five children, took three horses belonging to their master, and made their escape into Pennsylvania. They were pursued on the next day, and overtaken about two miles from Uniontown, when the negroes made desperate resistance, fighting with knives, hatchets, &c., but were finally captured and confined in jail in Morgantown. In the engagement, a man residing in Smithfield, Pa., was wounded. 

   RUNAWAY SLAVES––A great stampede or escape of slaves took place at Cambridge, Maryland, on Saturday nigh last. No less than 30 made their escape––15 belonging to Samuel Pattison, Esq., seven to Mrs. Jane Cator, three belonging to Richard Keene, one to W.V. Brannock, one to Reuben E. Philips, one belonging to the estate of Wm. D. Traverse, deceased, and two free negroes. These make 44 who have left that place within two weeks. Messrs. Pattison, Phillips, and Brannock have offered a reward of $3100 for the apprehension of their slaves. 

   SLAVE STAMPEDE FROM VIRGINIA.––The Richmond South of Nov. 11th, says that on Sunday night, a family of negroes belonging to Geo. W. Fairfax of Preston County, and consisting of father and mother and five children, took three horses belonging to their master, and made good their escape into Pennsylvania. They were pursued on the next day, and overtaken about two miles from Uniontown, when the negroes made desperate resistance, fighting with knives, hatchets, &c., but were finally captured and confined in jail in Morgantown.

   GREAT STAMPEDE OF SLAVES.––A great number of slaves have escaped recently from the neighborhood of Cambridge, Maryland. On the night of the 24th ult., thirty made off in a body, and within a few nights previous to that time fourteen had left. They belonged to different parties, and rewards amounting to $3,100 were offered for their recovery. 

   A stampede of fifteen slaves occurred from Key West on the night of the 6th. A small sail boat, belonging to the Sand-Key Lighthouse, with a month's supply of provisions for the keeper and assistants on board, was taken by the negroes, and in it they were able to elude their pursuers. It is thought they have gone to Nassau. 

From the Key West "Key of the Gulf," of Feb. 13.

   STAMPEDE OF SLAVES.––Last Sabbath morning our city was the scene of no little excitement occasioned by the discovery that during the night some twelve slaves had stolen the U.S. Lighthouse boat––about five tons and tender to Sand Key––and made their escape to seaward. Immediately upon its being known, a reward of some $4000 was offered for the recovery of the slaves, and the several pilot boats and the U.S.L.H. schooner Florida started in search. The pilot boats returned same day, but the Florida and a smack continued the search toward Nassau, and returned next day unsuccessful. Nothing has as yet been heard of the deserters or of the boat. Many persons are of the opinion that if they attempted to cross the Gulf in the boat, all have perished, for no boat could live in such a sea. The escape was well planned and must have been effected during Saturday night or early Sunday morning. 

   STAMPEDE OF SLAVES.––From information which has reached us, there would seem to have been a considerable stampede of slaves from the border valley counties of Virginia during the late Easter holidays. We have heard of seven having made their escape from the plantation of Mr. Mason, in Loudon county, near the Point of Rocks, and two from Berkley county. It is supposed others have also gone. 

   STAMPEDE OF SLAVES.––From information which has reached us, says the Baltimore Sun, there would seem to have been a considerable stampede of slaves from the border valley counties of Virginia during the late Easter holidays. We have heard of seven having made their escape from the plantation of Mr. Mason, in Loudon county, near the Point of Rocks, and two from Berkeley county. It is supposed others have also gone. 

   Business for the Underground Railroad.––A considerable stampede of slaves from the border counties of Virginia took place during the Easter holidays. 

    STAMPEDE OF SLAVES.--From information which has reached us, there would seem to have been a considerable stampede of slaves from the border valley counties of Virginia, during the late Easter holydays [holidays]. We have heard of seven having made their escape from the plantation of Mr. Mason, in Loudon county, near the Point of Rocks, and two from Berkeley county. It is supposed others have also gone.--Balt. Sun, April 9. 

   STAMPEDE OF SLAVES.––From information which has reached us, there would seem to have been a considerable stampede of slaves from the border valley counties of Virginia during the last Easter holidays. We have heard of seven having made their escape from the plantation of Mr. Mason, in Loudon county, near the point of Rocks, and two from Berkley county. It is supposed others have also gone.––Balt. Sun.

   STAMPEDE OF SLAVES.––From information which has reached us, says the Baltimore Sun, there would seem to have been a considerable stampede of slaves from the border valley counties of Virginia during the late Easter holidays. We have heard of seven having made their escape from the plantation of Mr. Mason, in Loudon county, near the Point of Rocks, and two from Berkeley county. It is supposed others have also gone. 

   STAMPEDE OF SLAVES.––From information which has reached us, (says the Baltimore Sun) there would seem to have been a considerable stampede of slaves from the border valley counties of Virignia during the late Easter holidays. We have heard of seven having made their escape from the plantation of Mr. Mason, in Loudon county, near the Point of Rocks, and two from Berke-county. It is supposed others have gone also. 

 .....From information which has reached us, there would seem to have been a considerable stampede of slaves from the border valley counties of Virginia during the late Eater holidays. We have heard of seven having made their escape from the plantation of Mr. Mason, in Loudon county, near the Point of Rocks, and two from Berkeley county. It is supposed others have also gone.––

   The Baltimore Sun says there has been a considerable stampede of slaves from the border valley counties of Virginia, during the late Easter holidays. 

   SLAVERY IN KENTUCKY.––The Louisville Courier says there is now an extraordinary stampede of the slaves in that State. They go off one, two, three, or a dozen at a time. 

   SLAVERY IN KENTUCKY.––The Louisville Courier says there is now an extraordinary stampede of the slaves in that State. Negros are daily escaping from their owners in startling number. 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."

   Senator Mason boasted the other day that dire experience was beginning to teach the African race who were their true friends. So many negroes were applying to return to Slavery that Virginia and Texas had been compelled to provide means to permit them to do so. This same discovery seems also to have extended into Kentucky, but as there the negroes act for themselves, instead of being acted for by others, the movement is in quite another direction. The Louisville Courier refers to an extraordinary stampede among the slaves in that State, who, it is said, are daily escaping from their owners in startling numbers, two, three, or a dozen at a time. 

   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." 

    From Our Regular Correspondent.

         SAN FRANCISCO, May 12th, 1858.

FRIEND MITCHELL:

   Trouble Among the Brickmakers.––The spirit of lawlessness, and interference with the rights of others, which has exhibited itself in several sections of the city recently, broke out again yesterday morning among several brickyards located upon the Ferry road, Federal Hill. During the early part of the day a band of some twenty-five or thirty men, organized for the object, visited the brick yard of Henry Thomas, Esq. for the purpose of driving off the colored employees, and supplanting them in their places. The work-men were attacked with pistols, and in several instances guns being fired upon them. The colored employees in the yard of the Messrs., adjoining, were also assailed [illegible] shots. It was rumored that one colored man was shot.... Serious difficulty being beign apprehended.... Mr. Thomas induced to apply to the southern district police station for a force to suppress the riotous proceedings. Capt. Woods at once dispatched to the scene Lieut.

   SLAVERY IN KENTUCKY.––The Louisville Courier says there is now an extraordinary stampede of the slaves in that State, by the way of the "underground railroad" to a free-soil region. They go off one, two, three or a dozen at a time. 

   The Louisville Courier says, there is now an extraordinary stampede of slaves in that state. Negroes are daily escaping from their owners in startling numbers. 

   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."

   THE FREE NEGROES OF KANSAS have lately held a meeting to express their approbation of the action of the late Leavenworth Constitutional Convention, by which they are granted the "right of suffrage and the freedom of the schools, on a perfect footing and equality with the white man." They also congratulate their colored friends throughout the country that on the free soil of Kansas the black man has his proper position.--They invite emigration to that territory, as the land of promise to all niggerdom, and we may consequently expect a grand stampede of all black "gemmen" in that direction.--But negroes are only allowed to vote on the adoption of the Leavenworth constitution, and then their own suffrage is to be submitted to a vote of the people. Now suppose the majority in that election decide that the negro shall not be allowed the freeman's privilege. It is in no wise probable that the black republicans intend to carry into practice their doctrines.

   A Mr. Hicks, of Kentucky, lost three negroes, who crossed to Indiana, near Evansville. The owner came to Evansville and secured the services of an officer named Evans, and by his assistance caught his property which was taken back to Kentucky. The reward offered was $500, but when Hicks got his niggers home he refused to pay the reward. The Evansville Enquirer says this is shabby and will injure the slave owners of Kentucky, for their niggers are constantly stampeding. 

  FRANCIS P. BLAIR, from his retirement at Silver Springs Maryland, writes a letter to ELIHU BURRITT, in favor of compensated emancipation. Preliminary, to that, however, there must be some place to which these blacks must be sent as they are emancipated, for the laws of the Slave States will not permit them to remain within the borders of such States, and the laborers of the north will not permit them to fill the northern States, to enter into competition with them. A portion of the vast uncultivated regions of the South, (meaning Central America of South Mexico,) should be obtained for this purpose, which, argues Mr. Blair, the government has as much right to obtain for that as it has to obtain lands on which to plant its expatriated or exiled Indians. Such removal of the free blacks would be fraught with the most beneficial consequences, not only to them, but the nation at large. Indeed, on this point, Mr. Blair has the most rosy anticipations.

   On Saturday night last, there was a negro stampede from the neighborhood of Lovettesville, in this county, in which about fifteen slaves left for parts unknown. Among the sufferers by this flight, is Col. R.L. Wright, Col. Waltman, Mr. Wenner, and others whose names we did not learn. 

   SLAVE STAMPEDE.––There was another slave stampede in Dorchester County, Md., last week. One belonging to Dr. Tubman, three to Mrs. Dixon, and two to R.L. Phillips, left for parts unknown. [Balt. Sun.

   Slave Stampede.––On Saturday night last three valuable negro men belonging to Mr. John Cunningham, and one belonging to Mr. D.R. McNeil, residing near Moorefield, Va., ran away. They left in company for Pennsylvania.––Richmond Enquirer. 

   There was another slave stampede, in Dorchester county, Md., last week. One belonging to Dr. Tubman, three to Mrs. Dixon, and two to R.E. Phillips, left for parts unknown. 

...a stampede among the negroes in the neighboring counties of Virginia during the past fort-night. Two of them were apprehended in this vicinity, and lodged in the jail at this place.––They have been returned to their masters. 

   Negrophobia in Greene County, 

                 Ohio.

 The Torch Light, a strong republican paper of Xenia, Greene county, Ohio, in its issue of July 28, has a leader on what the Editor is placed to term Negrophobia, a disease that has lately made its appearance in that region. That our readers may have some idea of the cause of the disease, which it seems is now affecting all classes of the white community of one of our populous counties, we will transcribe from the Torch Light:

   SLAVE STAMPEDE.––Four slave men, two belonging to Joseph C. Pancake, Esq., and two to Mr. Michael Miller, escaped from the South Branch, in Hampshire county Va., on Saturday night last, taking with them four horses, the property of Mr. Pancake. Parties are in pursuit of them. The horses were found in a field near Cresaptown, Md.

   SLAVE STAMPEDE.––On the 14th instant, six negroes absconded from their masters living in Barbour county, Va. Three from Mr. Corder, two from Mr. Isaac Woodford, and one from Mr. Hite. Four of Mr. Reynolds' slaves absconded from Taylor county at the same time––making ten runaway negroes in one stampede.––Balt. Clip. 

     Sam Greene and Uncle Tom's Cabin

   A Slave Stampede.

   The Annapolis Republican says, Ten valuable slaves belonging to Col. G.W. Hughes, of West river in this county, left his farm in a body on Tuesday morning last. At Queen Annes, about twenty miles from Col. Hughes's, two of them, who went there to get something to eat, were captured by Mr. Thomas E. Alvey and Mr. Richard H. Herwood. The rest of the negroes, who were a short distance off, waiting their return, suspecting from their long absence that they had been arrested, started in pursuit, and coming upon them at once with a bold rush, released their two comrades. A desperate fight occurred, and two of the negro men were, we learn, dangerously wounded, and left upon the field of battle. This seemed to frighten and deter the negroes, because they as speedily as possible returned home to their master. The two wounded were sent for and properly cared for. 

   THE NEW AMERICAN CRUSADE AGAINST FREE NEGROES.

   The Slave owners in Maryland have become thoroughly alarmed at the frequent stampedes of their slaves, and the consequent insecurity of that species of property. They are holding conventions, especially in the border counties, to devise measures to remedy that evil. The Baltimore American says that something more than speaking and resolving will have to be done, or the insecurity of slave property will result in the extinguishment of slavery in the State. It attributes the present condition of affairs to the regular system adopted by Northern Abolitionists, who seem to have perfected the underground road, and to the presence of free negroes in the State. The latter is a very undesirable element in the State, and is increasing daily; we should not be surprised if, within two years, compulsory legislation should be resorted to exile free negroes from the State.

                   Slave Stampedes.

   The Slave owners in Maryland have become thoroughly alarmed at the frequent stampedes of their slaves, and the consequent insecurity of that species of property. They are holding conventions, especially in the border counties, to devise measures to remedy that evil. The Baltimore American says that something more than speaking and resolving will have to be done, or the insecurity of slave property will result in the extinguishment of slavery in the State. It attributes the present condition of affairs to the regular system adopted by Northern Abolitionists, who seem to have perfected the underground road, and to the presence of free negroes in the State. The latter is a very undesirable element in the State, and is increasing daily; we should not be surprised if, within two years, compulsory legislation should be resorted to exile free negroes from the State.

   SLAVE STAMPEDES IN MARYLAND.––The Baltimore American says that in looking over its Maryland exchanges, it has been struck by the number of advertisements of runaway slaves. On the border counties, especially, this species of property is becoming a very unsafe investment. The owners of slaves, are beginning to arouse themselves to the necessity of instituting some effectual means of protection from such great and frequently recurring losses, which annually amount throughout the State to sums that would scarcely be credited.

 Slave Stampedes in Maryland.

   STAMPEDE OF TWO OF SENATOR DOUGLAS' SLAVES.––The Yazoo (Miss.) Banner contains an advertisement stating that two of Senator Douglas' slaves were confined in the Yazoo county jail. They had run away from the plantation of Mr. Douglas, in Washington county, Miss.