“If I had a fortune, however large, I would exhaust
the last cent in the way I have chosen, and in getting
up petitions from the Free States, especially from
Massachusetts, which should meet Congress at the very
threshold of the session nearly upon us, and which should
inspire Senator Sumner to submit his Plan of Emancipation
to that body at once, and give foundation and impulse for
an immediate and triumphant vote in his favor.”