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Updated: June 8, 2025

"I don't know it; and if they make the first move to stop us, be ready, boys." "All ready." There were two six-shooters behind me, and one in the hand of Hughes, that I feared much more than all the slave-holders in Kentucky. But we were soon relieved by the remark of one, as we were passing, "It was well we stopped that bent from falling, or't would have killed Smith as dead as a hammer."

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