Joseph lays out a plan for compensated abolition.
Joseph Smith, General Smith’s Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States (Nauvoo, IL: John Taylor, 1844), 11, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed August 11, 2021
I would walk in the tracks of the illustrious patriots, who carried the ark of the government upon their shoulders with an eye single to the glory of the people: and when that people petitioned to abolish slavery in the slave states, I would use all honorable means to have their prayers granted: and give liberty to the captive; by paying the southern gentleman a reasonable equivalent for his property, that the whole nation might be free indeed!