New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-09


goel G. Morgan, ESQ:
M Dear Sir Your communication of the 25th
uit informing me of my election as an honorary
member of the johnson Club of the city of Cairo,
has been received, and you are respectfully re-
quested to say to the gentlemen composing yolr
association, thatI aeeept the honor thus conferred
with many thanks. l congratulate you upon me
increasing strength Of practical Union sentiments
IN your section, and upon an improving pubic
Very respectfnIly. INC MONTGOMERY BLAIR.
NEW YoRK, July ., 1866.
joel G, Morgan, Esq;
Dear Siy--I am in receipt Of yours Of the 2sth
ult.. Informing Ine that | had been elected an
honorary member of the johnson Club, of the
city of Cairo.
Having ID knowledge of the objects of the club,
but opipinr they are to sustain the President in
lis patriotic course that he has adopted in favor
III the immediate admission of the Southern States
into Congress- cheerfully accept the honor con-
ferTed, and beg to present through you my thanks
to the club.
Let us now have general and hearty union of
sTl men against the destructive policy of the
radicals.
Truly, yours, FERNANDO WOOD
CINCINNATI, July S, 1866
Dear Si,.--I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter notifying me of my election
as an honorary member Of the johnson club of
Cairo, and beg that you will properly present to
the club my high appreciation of the honor they
have conferred upon me. am, very respectfully
GEO, "A. PENDLEToN.
NEW YORK, July 2, 1856.
Dear Sir-Yours informing me Of my election
as an honorary member of the johnson Club of
Cairo, is at hand, ] am Democrat; and mas
much as the President ID marching so energetically
and periodically in o path which any Democrat
ran travel I will with any man tn haIO hin,
restore the Union of the States and their repre-
sentaton in the national legislature. To this end
trust your club viii be coadjutor in the work
Of signalling national unity in the Philadelphia
national convention.
It win be no rump, but whole-hearted conven-
ton, where radicalism will have no home: but
where the enemies of the President viii be
shaucd into confessing that body Of true men,
from every part of the Union, can meet without
biekeFing and consult in harmony for the interest
of every partlof the land
~ Yours, $. s. COX,
LocErokT, N. Y, July IA, 1866.
Dear STA Serious Illness, from which / am
slowly recovering, has prevented my giving an
earlier reply TO your letter 81 the 26th ult
Iappreciate the compliment intended for me by
the johnson Club Of your city, in placing my name
on its list Of honorary members, and, in return /
must ask them to accept my grateful ackhowl-
'edgmants.
Inthe present crisis, feel that Ill Ii the duty Of
every citizen to sustain the President in his patT
otto efforts to restore the Union, and to preserve
the Constitution from overthrow
If the acton Of the present congress Ia sustained
by the people,it must evidently result in com
piete and fatal change of our system Of govern
ment. fts original landmarks wall disappear its
whole framework viii be changed and its most
vital principles lost in the vortex Of arbitrary,
centralized power, M s5.s 55i III. I'LL sss
On the other hand, il the people5will but rally
to the support Of Che President in the great work
upon which he has entered with such generous de-
vction and ntrePidity, cur free Institutions will
be rescued from destruction, and transmitted as o
precious legacy to our children, Isl WI
To Insure this result, | am ready to cooperate
withyou, and with true men everywhere, through
out the Land. cry respectfully and truly yours,
WAsHINGTuN HUNT.
NEw YoRK, June %, 1856.
joel G. Morgan ESQ.
Dear Sir--Please express to the johnson Club
Of Cairo, my thanks for the honor they have given
4ae, and also that accept the honorary member
ship with pleasure.
The policy Of Mr. Johnson Al set forth by
him is poiey Of restoration of the Union, and
OF peace and prosperity in that Union.
The policy Of Congress is a policy Of des.
truetion and ultimately of destruction.
Yours, truly, JAMES BROOKS