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"The Exodus" - - Some 30 or 40 Negroes left Clay County yesterday for Kansas, taking with them a quantity of stock.
This thing has become so common that a well informed gentleman tells us, that the heaviest slave owners of the county are seriously discussing the project of sending all of their slaves to Kansas at once. They say that if the present state of affairs continues they will lose now only their slaves, but much valuable stock also.
The Emancipation Ordinance has made a perfect stampede among the Negroes who cannot draw a nice distinction, and who imagined that they will all come within the 40-year-old class.
In Platte County, the Negroes are leaving at the rate of 30 or 40 a day, and only a few hundred remain. The same process is going on all along the border, and Missouri will soon be rid of her slaves, in fact, if not in the name.
The barriers which fence in the slave system in this state are crumbling daily and while our politicians are talking, the Negro is quietly acting, without any reference to statute books or ordinances.Date(s) of Creation
8/22/1863
