[Letter to] My dear Johnson
Contributors: Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1867
Place of publication: Roxbury, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Abolitionists; Impeachment; Antislavery movements
Notes: Holograph, signed with initials.

William Lloyd Garrison gives his opinion on the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson: "The 'impeachment' of the traitor at the White house is, what he called Forney, a 'dead duck." All honor to those who gave their votes in the affirmative! It is humiliating to see such a pitiable ending of this matter, but it is clear that there is no public sentiment demanding the impeachment, and Congress cannot be expected, as a representative body, to disregard or run counter to that sentiment in so grave a matter. But, alas! for the nation itself! I hold that the Presidential bully and usurper deserves to be impeachd and removed for his recent mutinous and insulting message to Congress, if for no other reason. But the obvious state of popular feeling, and the timidity of the Republicans, as shown in the vote on impeachment, will only more embolden that bad man."

Includes an envelope with the delivery address: Oliver Johnson, Esq., Independent Office, New York City, N. Y.

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.5, no.222.