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“On the Run.” - The Leavenworth Conservative says that on “Monday forenoon, 5 or 6 slaves in Platte County, imbued by a long residence near Kansas, with a spirit of freedom, embarked in a skiff and came over. Three or four men arrived on the opposite bank just as the runaways reached this one.
The pursuers finding that they were too late, turned around and rode slowly towards home, doubtless strongly impressed with the belief that immediate emancipation is being practiced to an alarming extent.
Twenty-seven more crossed just above town, on the same afternoon.'’Date(s) of Creation
8/13/1863
