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Letter to] Wm Lloyd Garrison Esq., Dear Sir [manuscript

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Letter signed by John Albion Andrew, Governor of Massachusetts. Text in the hand of J. Vila Blake, Assistant Military SecretaryAbove 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."
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818 1867
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Blake, J. Vila
  5. Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879
  6. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854)
  7. Slaver
  8. United States
  9. United States. President (1861 1865 : Lincoln)

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