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Progress of Radicalism in Missouri, True Words for Once. - - (excerpted from longer article) - - A large slaveholder in Platte County thus writes to the editor of the Weston Sentinel. He says:
Platte County, May 4, 1863. "Dear Sir: I approve the course of your paper. We must have emancipation, in some shape, before we can have peace in Missouri. I am willing to sell my negroes at once to the Government, or to fall in with gradual emancipation.
We have labored long to promote the public interests and prosperity of our country ; but it is lost labor, while the two elements, Border Ruffianism and Secessionism, remain to destroy the country; and these cannot be put down while slavery has a permanent footing. By its gradual extinction we shall take position with the great States of Ohio and Illinois in the race of progress, whose common interests, allied with ours, and in unity with all the great States of the valley of the Mississippi, will insure perpetual peace and prosperity.”
A slaveholder in St. Joseph County, Mo., recently advertised his last “nigger,'' a mulatto girl, who fled to Kansas. He offered “one cent reward, and no thanks," but he thanked God, who had heard his prayer, and had taken all his chattels to free soil.
(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
6/9/1863
