THE ADVANCING ARMY AND THE SLAVES.
...If actual servile insurrection should break out with all its unutterable horrors, they would unquestionably suppress it at the first call of Gov. Pierrepont and the President. The laws of humanity would require this. But if it were only a peaceful secession of slaves, even though it took the form of an actual stampede, it would not be for them to arrest it. Our soldiers were never made to be slave overseers; and no men at the South, whether he be rebellious or loyal, must for a moment expect it. Whatever loses Virginia shall meet in this way, she must patiently take as one of the necessary consequences of her infatuation....
[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 Advancing Army and the Slaves," New York (NY) World, July 19, 1861, p. 4.