Year: 1877




Hon }. G. BLAINE-Dear Sir Though
/ am not one of your constituents, | de-
sire most heartily to thank you for your
recent manly, eloquent, and patriotic ut
terances IN the Senate, while Justly as
serting the validity Of Senator Kellogg 5
election, and the legitimacy Of the claim
Of Governor Packard of Louisiana, and OF
Gov. Chamberlain of South Carolina, to
the recognition and support of the gen
eral Government. Be assured, to you
will be accorded the warm approval Of
all those whose tried and true souls in
the land, who remember too wildly the
awful consequences that have resulted in
the past from cowardly compromises
with the despotic and rebellious spirit Of
the South to sanction any more such in
sane attempts to draw out leyiathan
with a hook," to harmonic radically hos
tile elements, and to pacificate disloyalty
by treating il with special consideration.
Of course you will be most furiously as
sailed by the pseudo Democratic organs
North and South; but this will be sure
proof that you have sagaciously struck
the right keynote, in the right place,
and at the right time, and manfully met
the issue presented by the incorrigible
enemies of equal rights and legitimate
Z
ed at the delivery of your nobly patriotic
speech on the Amnesty bill, at former
session of Congress- speech that prov
ed as potent as the spear of Ithurisl when
It touched the assembling toad, and
evoked the demon in its real shape-a
speech to which the only reasonable OBJ
lection could be made was its surprising
clemency to the whole rebel mass, max.
ing but a single exception in the person
of the arch traitor of them all. Jeferson
Davis, and he excepted only because OF
his official responsibility for the unparal-
leled horrors OF Andsrsonville-a speech
which, by the vials OF wrath is brought
upon your head, Notwithstanding its ex-
cessive magnanimity, demonstrated that
nothing will conciliate the South" but
to put the control of the Federal Govern.
ment and the destiny Of the nation into
her hands. as in the days of her oligarch-
al supremacy.


You will be blamed in another quarter.
| There is a weak, timid, purblind, com
promising element in the Republican
party which your outspoken words OF
sound reason aud timely warning will
greatly disturb, because its panacea for
all our national divisions is "concilia-
tion"-meaning thereby a trucking to
the South as in the days of yore, and a
stolid indifference to the fate of the col
ored population. The elimination Of this
element from the party would greatly
add to its strength and efficacy. as il is
ever a drag in any great emergency.
/ That which it seeks to "conciliate' by
sacrificing principle to expediency-is
devoid of all sense Of honor, every pulsa-
ton of patriotism, every feeling Of ma
tionlity. It's wishes are neither to be
gratified nor consulted. The truly loyal
at the South need no conciliation; to the
disloyal no concession should be made.
II President Hayes shall be true to his
inaugural professions his administration
will be a shield OF defence to the oppress-
ed against their lawless oppressors God
grant he may be equal to his responsible
itiesl He cannot do better than to re-
spond, in word aud deed, to your noble
declaration-"Whoev else shall halt or
or grow weak in maintaining it, SO long
as have the strength | 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
cleave to the roof of my mouth and my
right hand forget its cunningw


Yours to uphold justice,


WM. LLOYD GARRISON.