$46,000 !
American Colonization Society. It appears that this old handmaid of slavery, by her profligacy and extravagance, is now involved to the amount of FORTY-SIX THOUSAND DOLLARS ! — This is the Society which boasts of having been so essentially benefitted by the opposition of abolitionists ! Fresh benefits will be conferred as fast as we can issue the Liberator. This is advancing backwards, and getting the Irishman’s hoist, a peg lower, with a vengeance. Now, down with your mites – there is a ‘dead horse’ to be taken out of the way which is to cost only
$46,000 !
(Liberator, February 1, 1834, pg 3)
