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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
September
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

A gentleman from Perry county, Missouri, informs us that a few days ago, be lost a very valuable slave, who crossedat Chcster, and escnped inio Illinois. He informs usthnt a very considerable number of slaves have Inlely escaped from tlint part of the State and eluded pursuif. A few miles from the river, in Randolph county, Illinois, is a small town called Eden, in and nenr lo wbioh are settled a horde of Abolitionists, who are organized for the business of slave-stealing. lf a slave escapes and comes among them, they secrete, feerf, nnd aid him in his escnpe. They are sent by a regular line to Canada; and if a slave once geís into this settlement he is never recovered. The gentleman states that the great facilities or escape have materially diminishcd the vnlue of slaves in that part of the State, and th.nt slave property hnsceased 10 be considered safe in the river counties in that part of Missouri. The Abolitionists about Eden openly avow and glory in Anti-Slavery opinions and

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News