The Abolition party hire spies or agents to report every thing in accordance with their own wishes and prejudices

The Abolition party hire spies or agents to report every thing in accordance with their own wishes and prejudices. They exaggerate facts, receive tales and rumors for truth, describe isolated abuses as the ordinary condition of slavery: this they must do to be deemed trustworthy by their employers, and to earn their living.
~ William J. Grayson (1856)