I Have Reached The Summit Of My

If Blacks Were Given The Right To Vote, That Would Place Every Splay-footed, Bandy-shanked, Hump-backed, Thick-lipped, Flat-nosed, Woolly-headed, Ebon-colored In The Country Upon An Equality With The Poor White Man.

Slavery Exists. It Is Black In The South, And White In The North.

I Feel Incompetent To Perform Duties...which Have Been So Unexpectedly Thrown Upon Me.

If You Could Extend The Elective Franchise To All Persons Of Color Who Can Read The Constitution Of The United States In English And Write Their Names And To All Persons Of Color Who Own Real Estate Valued At Not Less Than Two Hundred And Fifty Dollars And Pay Taxes Thereon, And Would Completely Disarm The Adversary. This You Can Do With Perfect Safety. And As A Consequence, The Radicals, Who Are Wild Upon Negro Franchise, Will Be Completely Foiled In Their Attempts To Keep The Southern States From Renewing Their Relations To The Union.

I Have Lived Among Negroes, All My Life, And I Am For This Government With Slavery Under The Constitution As It Is. I Am For The Government Of My Fathers With Negroes. I Am For It Without Negroes. Before I Would See This Government Destroyed I Would Send Every Negro Back To Africa, Disintegrated And Blotted Out Of Space