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(excerpted from longer article) - - We are informed by a prominent citizen of Platte County, Missouri, now in this city, that the slaveholders of that region, whose negroes have taken advantage of the rebellion and fled to Kansas, are now using all their efforts to persuade them to come back and work for wages, promising in good faith never to assert any claim of ownership over them. So will it be over the whole South. The plantations must be cultivated and the blacks, if not the only ones who can do the work, are certainly the only class who can do it advantageously and profitably. - Chicago Tribune, 23a.Date(s) of Creation
9/25/1862
