“I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your heroic
and successful opposition to the Louisiana fraud. Nothing
you have ever done better deserves the gratitude of the
country and of mankind.”
Elizur Wright, one of our earliest Abolitionists, wrote from
Boston:--
“Your keeping out the _sham_ State of Louisiana is worth,
in my estimation, any three average military victories.
I would give the United States Treasury half I am worth
to have Congress, the next thing it does on the subject,
decide black suffrage as the ‘inexorable condition’ of
readmission.”