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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 9: Journalist at large.—1868-1876. (search)
the reactionary designs of the Executive, and to maintain Republican control of the States lately in rebellion— not a party control, in his eyes. The failure to impeach President Johnson was a great disappointment to him. In the Presidential campaign of 1868 (when General Grant and Horatio Seymour were the rival candidates), the terrorism rampant at the South, and the Southern hopes of Democratic restoration, furnished themes for several of his articles in the Independent; but he refused Aug. 13, Oct. 1, 15, 22, 29, 1868. to preside at a Republican ratification meeting in Faneuil Hall, or, at the request of Horace Greeley, to write an Ms. July 23, 1868. address to the freedmen, urging them to vote for Grant— Greeley to O. Johnson. believing himself too little known to the beneficiaries of his life-long endeavors in behalf of freedom. He was not found, either, among the partisans of Ind. June 23, Dec. 22, 1870; Apr. 13, 27, 1871. President Grant when the latter, in 1870-71, wa