"This, you may be assured, is a Negro, not an Indian war, and if it be not speedily put down, the south will feel the effects of it on their slave population before the end of the next season." - General Thomas Jesup, 1836 

"If the war be carried on it must necessarily be one of extermination. We have, at no former period of our history, had to contend with so formidable an enemy. No Seminole proves false to his country, nor has a single instance ever occured of a first rate warrior having surrendered." - General Thomas Jesup, 1837

"You have guns, and so do we. You have powder and lead, and so do we. You have men, and so have we. Your men will fight, and so will ours, until the last drop of Seminole blood has moistened the dust of his hunting grounds." - Osceola, 1836