Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1859 — Signs to be Mistaken. [ARTICLE]

Signs to be Mistaken.

! 'l’he irrepressible exodus of slaves from the borders of Missouri continues unabated. L’’ree white labor is coming in—that of neI groes going out. Every day adds proof to this, and any day a visit to our levee will convince the skeptical ol the steady and continual (low of slave property to the Smith. I Twe.nl v-live left yesterday on one steamboat. Tiu‘ pro-slavery organs in the country are howling in vain. The Huntsville Citizen deplores the loss, but it can't !><■ helped. Planters Smith wan! slaves- —,M issmir ia us don’t want them. Tiie result is euMJy loreseen, and ranr.nt be averted. \\ iiile some I are selling, .others allow their negroes to run away, as we hear of the arrival oftwentvI six .1 u jitives at Detroit, bound to Canada, jWe say “allow,” because they take no measures to prevent it and do not foolishly a teem pt to hold t hem. 1 n this connection, we learn from one of the toil gate keepers on the Manchester : road Irom tins city, that during the season ! not less than a hundred families have passed | towards the South-west; and yet only one of that number lri-1 any slaves; all the rest 'were from the North ami East. ('an anybody doubt tiie great fact that the State is I fast emancipating itself from tiie incubus of , slavery, and gradually getting ready for enrollment with the great majority of the Union!—N7. Louis Democrat.