Their mean and despicable contrivances to deprive us of our Slave property

[The abolitionists’] conduct has been most atrocious. No language is strong enough to denounce it. The shameless impudence with which they have trampled the Constitution under their feet, and their mean and despicable contrivances to deprive us of our Slave property ought to be held up to the scorn of the whole Union.
~ Joseph W. Lesesne (September 12, 1847)