New Orleans (LA) Times-Picayune, "Stampede of Free Negroes," December 10, 1856

   Stampede of Free Negroes.--The Nashville Patriot, of the 2d Inst., says:

   The free negroes at Murfreesboro, took a compulsory stampede from that place last week. Their depredations had become insufferable to the citizens, and their pernicious influence among the slave population made them a serious grievance. Self-preservation compelled the whites to stringent measures to get rid of them, and a general stampede was the consequence.