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Immediate Emancipation in Platte. - - The ball is rolling onward; the people of this state are not blind to their own interests; even in Platte County, which was at the commencement of the war considered one of the hotbeds of the rebellion, because of its strong pro-slavery sentiment and the great wealth in that peculiar species of property of its inhabitants, the following resolution was unanimously adopted at one of the largest and most respectable meetings ever held in that County:
* Resolved, that the people of Platte County are earnestly in favor of calling a State Convention, to amend the constitution, so as to secure the immediate emancipation of all of the slaves in the state.
The Sentinel remarks: “Such is the expressed voice of Platte County uttered by respectable and substantial citizens, in a meeting the most numerous of any we have ever seen here.”
The Copperheads, sympathizers and pro-slavery men do not seem to relish this sort of expression of the popular feeling, and they are preparing for a conflict, if any reliance can be placed in the following letter to the Missouri Democrat:
“Something Wrong in Platte County, Platte County, Missouri, September 14, 1863. - - Editors Missouri Democrat: Gentlemen: The secesh report that Colonel Moss made a speech in Liberty last Monday, in which he said he was a Southern sympathizer but against the rebellion, and that he had authority to arm the citizens of Clay County, and that he is now organizing them in the companies. Now it is well known that not 1 in 100 of the citizens of Clay are Union men, and some of the worst secessionists of Platte are going down to join and get arms. Secessionists are preparing for conflict. If the secesh are armed the Union men cannot live here. Guerrillas have been gathering in Clay for some time. Moss has not the confidence of Union men. Terrible consequences must follow. Inquirer”
It is a notorious fact that Union men in Clay County are as scarce as brains in the knowledge box of the man that runs the News. Colonel Moss himself said so, in the second session of the Convention. If the citizens of Clay will be armed, General Guitar will have in the end to fight so many more bushwhackers.Date(s) of Creation
9/20/1863
