Madison (WI) Wisconsin State Journal, "Drifting Into War," November 19, 1859

      Drifting into War. 

...At the very time when it was exhausting its energies to put down a slave stampede, caused by seventeen white men and five negroes, our territory was invaded by a foreign enemy, our citizens butchered, and a considerable village taken from the hands of its inhabitants....

[Editor's Note: The majority of this article has been omitted from our transcription except for the portions directly the term "slave stampedes" or some variant.]