Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-04-22
LINCOLN AND MONTGOMERY BLAIR.
The New York Wtnld publishes tie follow,
ing letter from Montgomery Blair to Mantou
Marble; n0n wnn I'll u .vnaaa1sste d os4s: .sil

inS ictCcr iIOm montgomery Blair 70 Mantou
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4s4ssyf hs.a WASHINGTON, March 10th.
| DEAR SIR ~, The Hfoyld Of recent date
publishes what gpurp0rts to be note to Presi
dent Lincoln, signed by twenty-five Senator'S
Wllch, IL said, was presented to him IN 1864
with u view to procure my removal from his
Cabinet As several of the signers were then
both political and personal friends, and con.
tinued so, and some were not ut the date afore-
said membersof the Senate, / think the paper
of doubtful authority. b s4 ~ ]
AS my withdrawal from the Cabinet has been
a matter OF public interest, all real facts con-
nected with it bear eren more forcibly on the
argument for which you adduced the Senato-
rial letter. l win recall them briefly:
The Republican National Convention. YOU
will remember, adopted resolution in BUR.
port like the Senatorial note, saving in effect
that the Cabinet should agree with the Presi-
dent in political principle, and appointed q
committee to designate the person sought to be
removed by the Convention. was the person
whose removal was sought; not, indeed, as
they pretended, because disagreed with tho
PRESIDENT, but really because | agreed with
hlm. and had been active and earnest in my
endeavers TO thwart the powerful men in the
Convention and in Congress to make the dog
mas which have now become the platform of
the Radical party the platform of the Repnb.
lican Convention, and to defeat Lincoln i nom.
ination, whom they then kaew, as well as since
his proclamation proneuDcing the Wade and
Davis reconstruction bill unconstitutional. op-
posed aA their schemes. Not approaching Mr.
Lincon, they believed and openly declared that
his opposition was due to what they called the
Blair influence. Hence offered my resigna-
ton when the resolution was presented by the
committee. He said they had demanded my
removal, but that he replied that be would not
sacrifice friend to appease enemies The
pressure continued The Chairman of the Ma
tional Committee wrote Mr.. Lincoln despairing
letters. Fremont was continued in the field.
A new Convention was called to meet in Gin
cinnatl on the 3Oth Of September, 1864. Wade
and Davis. Chairmen respectively of the Re-
construction Committees Of the two Houses.
issued manifesto, denouncing him with op
posing Congressional reconktfuction and per-
mitting the SoutherE people to amend the Con-
stitutions Of their States nnd reorganxiny
their State Governments under the Eonstitu-
ton of the United States for the base motive
of promoting his own ambition. At thus time
the Radicals made motions to withdraw their
opposition. One of the conditions was the ac-
ceptance OF my resignation. insisted that
they should be granted, and my father Joined
very earnestly IN this request.
MIR. Lincoln's published letter recognizing
me as disinterested friend, aud faithful Of
ficer, my speech mt Co0per's Institute immedi-
af.i after, giving some of these facts aud con-
history fully established all of
them.
But can proof of the hostility of the Radi. |
Gals to Lincoln be required when Mr.. Wade. |
who denounced him as a usurper and cunfed- |
crate with rebels for the base purpose of SUBJ |
serving bis owl ambition, has been elevated by |
them to the Presidency Of the Senate, with q |
view to putting him in Mr.. Lncolns place, |
because he was and is the true representative
Of their principles and plans? Or can any Que
now doubt that they struck me down because |
was an earnest and faithful friend cf the Pres
dent, to whom, and not to me, they were hos
tile Z Mr. Lucola fully recognized this in his
with me ut the time, aud would
f he had lived, base made it known to the
country. He oyercame his feelings ut the
time. yielded his friend to the paramount pub
ic interest involved in the election; but Il must
be remembered that he refused to sanction the i
Wade and Davis, Reconstruction bill, which
declared the State governments Of Louisiana
md Arkansas null and void, and assumed the
bower for Congress to set up governments in
'he Southern States, even whilst his election
vas pending; and that in his last public utter
lnce, on the 18th of April, he condemned the
lctien OF Congress in refusing seats to the
members from Louisiana and Arkansas. He
would never, therefore, have yielded to the
Constitution he had sworn to det,a,d.
IssH ssahua9 isiailIp fliss NJ. BLAIR.
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