Year: 1872

their votes for Greeley; for the Dem


oeratic party have not become con


verts to the principles of the Repub-


lican party-they are simply in mas
querade! 1t is frank, truthful bu


audacFOus confession.


| With great show of magnanimity


you say-"I am against tanning an.


cient flames into continued life.


am against rakiDg in the ashes of the


past for Goals of fire yet burning. ]


am against the policy of hate. Freely


1 accept the hand that is Offered
Art thou in health, my brother q
and reach forth my own in friendly
grasp" Why this gushing display
of fraternal feeling? Have you hith-
ertO been animated by a spirit of
vengeance? In your present AMIGA
| BILE state of mind wherein do YOU
differ from the whole body of the
people of the North? To insinuate
that any portion of them-that Pres
ident Grant of the Republican party
have at any previous period cher
ished, or do now cherish, any wrath,
or malice, or unkindness toward the
people of the South, is to libel them
grievously. To accuse them of try
ing to "fan ancient flames into con-
tinued life," to pursue the "policy of
hate" is to bear false witness; for
there is among them but one univer-
sal feeling of good will, and they de-
sire nothing so much as to "let by
cones be bygones" IN good faith
But, seeing now cOntumaciOus has
been the rebel spirit toward every
needful measure for the restoration
of public order and the protection of
all classes alike, they cannot allow
themselves 10 be deceived into the
belief that il is no longer what it was,
but thoroughly loyal and patriotic,
merely because of its verbal assent to
any form of patriotic averment, how
ever unexceptiOnable-se that it
has, at this Presidential opportunity,
the most powerful temptation to lie
and dissemble, in order to clutch the
reins of government as of old.


1t was a liar from the beginning,
and "full of all deceivableness of un-
righteousness" having broken the
most solemn pledges, multiplied its
peruries, and committed such abom-
inatiOns as to make the earth stand
aghast. Under these circumstances,
it must not aid it cannot be trusted,
even though its shouts for Horace
Greeley are heard i'll every Southern
city, town and village. "The voice
is Jacobs voice, but the hands sre the
hands of Esau."


My letter is already much to long
to allow me space to notice your
sweeping impeachment of President
Grant, which is but repetition of
your speech in the Senate. Thrice
you have slain the slain yet the
President will not down at your bid
bing. In charging upon his admin
that lit is marked by acts
OF delinquency, especially towards
the cOlored race ~ by the side of
the allegations ON the impeachment
Of Andrew Johnson were technicaland
trivial" and that "unquestionably
he deserves impeachment for high
crimes and misdemeauor, rather than
q denomination" your eXtravgance
Of speech is its best refutation. The
blow is not felt by him the reeoil is
upon yourself.


"Ifany valued friend separates from
me nOw," you say, "it tCiH be because
he places a man above principles" ~
Pardon me in saying that think the
very reverse of this will be true" ~
The separation will be mainly with
those principles and meas
lres which have made the present
administration illustrious. and to
President Grant only as one deemed
worthy to be trusted with magisterial
powers for another term. The issues
make all mere personal con
'ideratiOns comparatively insignifi-
calt.


Remembering that "the price of
liberty is eternal vigilance" l re-
main


Faithfully yours,


WM. LLOYD GARRISON. !