[Letter to] Wm Lloyd Garrison Esq., Dear Sir
Contributors: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1863
Place of publication: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Department, Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln); Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ); United States; Abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Letter signed by John Albion Andrew, Governor of Massachusetts. Text in the hand of J. Vila Blake, Assistant Military Secretary.

Above the salutation, this letter has been marked "Private and unofficial."

Governor John Albion Andrew discusses the President's Proclamation. He thinks slavery is unpopular in the North. Governor Andrew believes that people vote against Republicans "from an old political habit and sentiment of opposition to them as a political party." He says: "Added to this is some dissatisfaction at supposed lack of adequate military progress and in some minds a feeling or opinion (ignorant it is true) that the blood and treasure of the free white North is spending not for the good of the nation but simply for the deliverance of black men, whom they do not much like and for whom they would willingly make no sacrifices."