THE SLAVERY QUESTION.––
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Whilst we would take no steps to induce servile insurrection among the insurgents who now war with deadly hostility against us, a course which our humanity would shudder at, we rather think a peaceful stampede of the able bodied blacks would be a humane policy that might prevent their committing violence upon white people left on the plantations at their mercy.
At all events it is time now to have due consideration given to this subject. Some provision should be made for getting rid of all fugitives who do come, and it would be well for the government to have some plan digested before Congress meets on the 4th of July next to provide for all the exigencies of the case that may occur.
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SENEX, Trenton, New Jersey.
[Editor's Note: The majority of this article has been omitted from our transcription except for the portions directly mentioning the term "slave stampedes" or some variant.]
"The Slavery Question," Philadelphia (PA) North American and United States Gazette, June 18, 1861, p. 1.