A spirit of fierce persecution raged in Jackson and surrounding countiesofMissouri.
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For weeks before the election, therefore, the border countiesofMissouri were all astir.
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Fully three-fourths of the squatters of this whole region were from the border countiesofMissouri.
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He also proclaimed the object to be to lay waste the border countiesofMissouri and exterminate the disloyal people.
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Grouped about these two points were half a dozen heavy slaveholding countiesofMissouri,-Platte ,Clay ,Bay ,Jackson ,Lafayette ,Saline ,andothers.
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This excitement was naturally transferred into the border countiesofMissouri and the territory, as settlers favoring free or slave institutions moved into them.