Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1866-09-13
LOUISVILLE, September 10th, 1866.
To His Excellency. Andlew Johnson, Presi-
dent of the United States:

LOUISVILLE, September 10th, 1866.
To His Excellency. Andlew johnson, Presi-
dent of the United States:
MR. PRESIDENT | have the honor of
submitting this letter at your consldera-
ton to witness you my unbound graft
tude to your glorious undertaking, the
defense of the interests of The people,
North, South, East, West, and the pro
motion of their welfare" By your un-
selfish undertaking the true Fathers of
the peoples Of the earth, "Garibaldi,
Victor Hugo, and Kossuth' would praise
you; your Excellency will get the ad-
miration and plaudts of the world, your
noble and worth work will be hailed with
exultation everywhere. By your patri-
otic undertaking, the Union dissolved by
Radical conspirators, will be speedily re-
stored at its former height and glory, it
will be cemented upon an immoveable
rock where they would be impotent for
woes; the Republic so dishonour to the
eyes of christianity by their execrable
proceeds, will reach promptly its old
high title of model Republic Thanks
givin and song of peans would go up
until Divine Throne as a perfume in
odour of suavity. Your name will
brighten history; You will get shrine
in the heart of the recognizing people
as being the preserver of the Union, OF
their rights, liberty, properties, and the
life of immense number among them,
at stake, by prolongation of power to
the Radicals. By your grand underta-
king, Mr.. President, you will be raised
up TO the pinnacle of the honor and
glory, and shall get the glorious crown
of Immortality. By it you will be en-
abled for speedily start general amnes-
ty proclamation, Of Jefferson Davis
down, and return to the Southern people
without no exception their confscated
properties. When this meritorious work
will be accomplish, praises and congra-
tulations would rain upon your Excel
lency of all parts of the world, you will
be considered as the most devoted ben
efactor upon earth to the American peo-
pie, their Protector and saver of the
sacrilege grasp of their most cruel enc
emies, Radical leaders"
In the triumph of your noble cause,
Mr.. President, the happiness of the mass
of the people, all what they have of most
precious, dearest and most sacred is in
volved. In the triumph of the insurgent
radicals, ruin and curse will be their sin
lister destin, "as sure as the sun shines
upon us Having no other aim to
reach, since lS49, bat the happiness of
the people; | entreat them of true depths
of my soul to enlisted in mass at once
under your glorious peoples STANDARD,
as by the Angel trumpet to the last
Judgment
My legitimate duty las a admirer of
the illustrious heroes, Grant, Farragut,
Rousseau &c and thus of the Homo. Henry
Seward &c) is to apply them my warm
est congratulations and praises, they de-
serves so legitimately. To the immortal
hero Grant, as Commander of the army,
my highest admiration to have embraced
the noble cause of your Excellency,
"the true and Just cause of the people of
all sections OF the country. Under your
blazoning peoples standard the illustri-
Gus General will be raised up to the pin
nacle of the honor and glory, and will
get the precious crown of Immortality;
While radicals (who NY their considera-
bic gifts, their promises to elected him
President; to get him In their internal
bad company would get the general
scorn, the shame and execration OF the
world, compelled to conceal than to the
Just wrath Of the most outraged people,
as soon as the mask who cover their
infamy will be raised.
conclude, Mr. President, in beseech-
ing Providence, Of watch upon you, and
spread upon you, and upon the people Of
the u. S His inexhaustible treasures Of
richness and blessings
have the honor to be, of your Excel,
most sincere and devoted servant
l. b. MICHEL