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Wm. Lloyd Garrison To Senator Summer

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Day
7
Month
June
Year
1872
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Public Domain
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Boston, Juno 3.- The following letter has apppared iu print : Roxbuky, June 1. " Deau Me. Sumneb. - I owo it to you to say with all tho frankness which sober friendship justifies, thut I havo read your speech in sharp arraignment of tho President, and my conviction is that it is illjudged, Ul-timed, and so extravagant in its charges and bitter in jts personalities as to neutralizo whatever just critvcism can be found in it. It will assuredly serve the porposes of tiie worst foeathe cause of impartial freedom has to fear. Very many ot' them are now sailiüg' under the doceptive banner of Liberal 3iepublaans, bat the loyal li'ocrty upholding party with whioh you have hitherto been proved to be indentified, will peruse it with deep regret, if not with unfeigned astonishuiont. Certainly you do nut represent Massachusetts in this swooping impeachmont. Hor Itcpublicun people aro almost a unit for tlie ro-election of tho man whom you attompt to stain with orime aml ctiví i' Tv'itU infamy. You oannot separate Gen. Grant Erom the party wlnch put him in tho Presidential chair, und wiich means to keep him in it, if it is possiblo, anothnr term, being Batisfied as to his ability, iulegrity and putriotism ; and therefore, in etSgmeeüziag him as n vonal self-s(H'ker and unscrupulous usurper, you virtually. pronounoe it to b equally corrupt and nntrustworthy. This you tiavo a right to do on your own responsibility, if you must; Dut in so-doing you will tind yourself for the lirst timo in marked opposition to tho sentiment of Mass!tchusett3 as its Senator in Congress, and surrounded by allies who havo boen heretoforo your dsadliest encmios. Occupying as I do an o'utside position, I writo this not undor jjarty bias, and only becanse I feel oonstrained in this matter to free my mind as a proof of my friendship. Beceive it in the 9pirit whioh dirtatud it. Faithfully and rogretfully yours (Signeil) Wm. LloYD UABBI8OZT. To llijii. Charles Sumner." Gen. Shcjman and Licut. Grfcnt w;re at Borliu on the 4th inst.

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