Louisville (KY) Daily Journal, "Negro Stampede," August 21, 1862

NEGRO STAMPEDE— We learn from the New Orleans Delta, of the 5th inst., that there was a stampede of one hundred and fifty negroes from the plantation along the coast below the city. On the 4th the Delta says:

              The morning about 4 o’clock, a portion of the above number, supported to be 25 or 30, were met by the police of the third district about M [illegible] street, when a running fight took place, extending up to the St. Parliament street. The negroes were armed with cane knives, say the blades and clubs. When they saw the police, the leader of the gang called them to come, that they were drilled. The police, finding hat the negroes were determined to resist, opened on them with their pilots and closed in with their clubs. They captured fourteen and killed one. Of these captured nine were so badly wounded that they had to be sent to the hospital. Five of them were pronounced mortally wounded. All of this part belonged to Mr. Morgan, whose plantation is almost twenty- eight miles below the city. Four of the policemen were wounded but the what extent we were unable to learn. There seems to be a lack of disposition on the part of some connected with the Third district police station to allow the public to be made acquainted with the doings of the police, except through certain quarters.

              The body of the dead negro was lying at the station, awaiting the arrival of the coroner. The other five we saw in the lock up. They are all hail, hearty, uprightly looking negroes, notwithstanding their doleful tales about being over working and on [illegible]- fed. That, however, is [illegible] the came with negroes; and it not unfrequently happens that those best cared for make the most complaints.

              We understand that one of the negroes stated that two Frenchman indicated them to leave the plantation by telling them that if they could get o the city they would have plenty to eat and nothing to do.

              Those in the lock up denied that they intended to fight, but said they expected to be locked up in some jail where they could make complaints against the overseer. Still hey were found with arms in their hands. The one who put in this place, [illegible] being asked why he has a cane-knife in his hands, awkward that he picked it up where some of his comrades dropped it. And, not with standing his desire to be locked up, be attempted to escape by fight, when he was brought to by a stone which struck him in the back.

              As this party panned the Barracks it is stated two of them were stopped. Some of their cane-knives as being covered with blood, it was supposes they had a fight before they met the police.