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The Great Slave Exodus in Missouri - Its Lesson. - - The following paragraphs from the St. Joseph Herald show that the slaves in Missouri, impatient with the tardy operation of the pro-slavery emancipation ordnance recently adopted, have taken the work into their own hands, and are pushing it forward with amazing briskness:
Stampede in Platte. - A gentleman from Platte County, informs us that 13 slaves left that county Wednesday and went to Kansas. They went in the light of the noonday sun.
A large lot of contrabands arrived in Elwood yesterday morning. They were from Ray County, in this State, and crossed the river a short distance below this city. After a few days of rest they will enter the “Army of the Lord.”Date(s) of Creation
8/20/1863
