I intended certainly to have made a clean thing of that matter, as I did last winter when I went into Missouri and there took slaves without the snapping of a gun on either side, moved them through the country, and finally left them in Canada.

• 我确实有意完全消灭奴隶制，去年冬天我就到过密苏里州接运黑奴，双方未发一枪就将黑奴运出，送至加拿大。