“ Born to impoverish and destroy white men, to bestow an imaginary and unattainable good upon black men. Will the people pay the unlawfnl debt? For one, I am resolved not to go into this negro-buying business if I can help it. If the people of Missouri wish to get rid of their negroes, they are welcome—provided they do not throw them upon us for support. If they do not wish to get rid of them, they are welcome to keep them. Only the people of these Northern States are determined that they will not be taxed to buy them. ”

“ The administration has been for some time spending more than one hundred thousand dollars a day, to support negroes whom they have stolen, or induced to run away from their masters. And all thisoutlay for negroes has been going on while our soldiers have remained unpaid, and their wives and children are suffering with want—almost with starvation Within the last thirty days, over one hundred thousand white men—North and South—have been slain to appease the terrible Moloch of abolitionism. ”

“ I, Abraham Lincoln & Co., promise to pay ten millions of dollars for the aforesaid negroes of Missouri. If any body is content with such a note of hand they can take it; but let them not imagine that the nation will ever endorse its If capitalists are content to advance money on such paper, it is their own speculation ”