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A Farewell. - - The Platte County Sentinel is informed that some 20 slaves of that vicinity bid farewell to Belle Missouri on Sunday night, and made their way to their imagined Canaan, across the Big Muddy.
These stampedes have become to common in Missouri as scarcely to be noteworthy any longer, and we don’t pretend to keep pace with them. – Saint Louis Union
Let them go. Whatever weakens the abominable system of slavery weakens the rebellion. Every blow at slavery is a blow at the Southern Confederacy. Every wound inflicted at the heaven defying and man degrading system of human bondage, is a dagger thrust at the heart of the Richmond dynasty.
When the night of death and damnation closes over the Southern rebellion, may not a slave be found on our continent, to kindle the flame of another rebellion, and bring down the wrath of God anew upon this nation.
(Researcher's note: The Platte County Sentinel was a weekly newspaper published in Weston, Missouri, during the American Civil War era from 1861 to 1864.)Date(s) of Creation
5/31/1863
