Letter from Oliver Johnson, Orange, N.J., to William Lloyd Garrison, May 1, 1877

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Title:
Letter from Oliver Johnson, Orange, N.J., to William Lloyd Garrison, May 1, 1877
Description:
Oliver Johnson writes William Lloyd Garrison stating that he has never read Garrison's letter to Dr. Eliot, and therefore cannot "decide how far the Doctor's views agree" with his own. Johnson states that he and Garrison's own personal disagreement concerning Grant's "Southern policy" dates from over four years ago, and notes that he did not vote for Grant in 1872 owing to his disagreement with Grant's policy of Reconstruction, and his belief that Grant was "the tool of unscrupulous men". Johnson states that Grant's Reconstruction policies had "utterly failed", and that their continuation by Hayes would only worsen the matter. While noting that any policy vis-à-vis the South is "but a choice of evils", Johnson expresses his concurrence with Sumner's proposal to have re-admitted the Confederate states as territories prior to granting them full statehood, stating that the Constitution itself now stymies efforts to grant "substantial protection to the negro" owing to the rights possessed by the States.
Author:
Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
May 1, 1877
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Political corruption--United States--History--19th century
Presidents--United States--Elections--1872
Presidents--United States--Elections--1876
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Political corruption--United States--History
Presidents--United States--Election--1872
Presidents--United States--Election--1876
Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (6 p.) ; 13.6 x 25.6 cm.
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Place of origin:
Orange, N.J.
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Manuscript is composed upon the typeset stationary of the Orange Journal, with the header reading "Office of the Orange Journal. Oliver Johnson, Editor and Proprietor."
Identifier:
4664176
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.39, p.31A
Barcode:
39999066765585