Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-03-15
Garrison Oh Blaine.

The following letter has been Transmitted by
Mr. Garrison TO Mr.. Blaine:
Boston, March s, 1871.
Hon James G. Blaine:
Dear Sir: Though am not ono oG your con-
stituents, desire most heartily TO thank you
for your recent manly, eloquent and patriotic
utteranccs in the Senate while justly asserting
the validity of Senator Helloggs election, and
the legitimacy of the claim OF Governor Pack
ard, of Louisiana, and Of Governor Chamber
lain, of South Carolina, to the recognition and
support ofthe General Government. Be assured,
to you will be accorded the warm approval Of
all those tried and true souls III the land who
remember too yiTidly the awful consequences
that have resulted in the past from cowardly
compromises with the despotic and rebelious
spirit Of the South to sanction any more such
insane attempts to draw out lovathan with q
hook" to harmonic radically hostile elements,
and to paciacate dsloyalty by treating it with
special consideration. OF course, you will be
most furiously assailed by the pseudo denlocra-
tic ogans North and South; bu: this will be sure
proof that you have sagaciously struck the right
key note, in the right place, and at the right
time and man(uily met the issue presented by
the incorrgible enemies Of equal rights and le-
Ultimate government. So they Writhed and
howled at the delivery ofyour nob]y patriotic
speech on the anmesty bill, at a former session
Of Congress- speech that proved as potent rs
the spear Of Ithurial when it touched the dissem.
bling toad. and evoked tho demon in his real
shape-a speech to which the only reasonable
objection could DO mado was its surprising Gle.
mency to the whele rebel mass, making but a
single exception to the person ofthe arch traitor
Of them all, Jefferson Davis, and no excepted
only because ofhis official responsibility for tho
unparalleled horrors of Andersonville-a speech
which, by the walls Of wrath it brought upon
your head. notwithstanding its excessive mag.
nsnimity, demonstrated that nothing will ICON.
ciiate the South but to put the control Of the
federal government and the destiny Of the nation
into her hands, as in the days Of her olgsrchal
supremacy.
You will be blamed in another quarter.
There is q weak, timid, purblind, compromising
element in the republican party which your
outspoken words of sound reason and timely
warning will greatly disturb, because its panacea
for sll our notonsl divisions is ''conciliation" -
meaning thereby q trucking to the South as in
the days f yore, and a solid indifference to the
fate of her colored population. The elimination
Of this element from the party who would
greatly add to it strength and efficiency, as it
is ever drag in any great emergency. That
which it seeks to "conciliste" by sacrificing
principl to expediency-is devoid of all sencs of
honor, every pulsatory of patriotism, every feel
ing Of nationality. lis wishes arc neither to be
gratifed nor consulted. The truly loyal at the
South needs no Cancellation; to the disloyal nc
concession should be made. If President Hayes
shall be true to his inaugural professions his
Administration will be shield of defense to the
oppressed against their lawless oppressors. God
grant he may be equal to his responsibilities.
He cannot do better than to respond, in word
and deed, to your noble declarations: WHO.
ever else shall halt or grow weak in maintain
ing it, go long as I have strength I will stand
for the Southern Union men of both colors;
and when cease to do that, before any presence
North or South, may my tongue clesve to the
roof of my mouth, snd my right hand forget its
cunning!'
Yours, to uphold justice
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.
Logan has been offered the Brazilian mission