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A year ago the principle proprietor Mr. (George S.) Park was driven away by a pro-slavery mob; the Parkville Luminary was thrown into the Missouri River, and death to all "Abolitionists” was the order of the day. But now the ruffians are as docile at kittens; Park was received back with open arms; he is now courted, flattered, and obeyed by the very men who 18 months earlier thirsted for his blood, notwithstanding he is much bolder in uttering his no-slavery sentiments than when he was mobbed.
Emancipation principles are rapidly spreading; large numbers of Northern emigrants are buying farms in the neighborhood and settling there. Our informant says, that the bitter pro-slavery men are selling out and moving South at the rate of not less than a dozen a day, and taking their slaves with them.
A committee of slaveholders from the Platte County is now in Texas making a selection of lands for their neighbors, preparatory to a very large emigration of slave-holders from Western Missouri. A great many Northern men who started from home for Kansas or Nebraska have bought farms and settled in Western Missouri, and boldly avow their Free Soil and Emancipation sentiments. Splendid lands, well improved have been sold to the “Yankees” for $16, $12 and $10 per acre, the owners taking the purchase money, gathering up their negroes and decamping for Texas. - Chicago Tribune.Date(s) of Creation
5/13/1857
