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Another little-known incident was Andrew's action in regard to the meeting in memory of John Brown, which was held on December 2, 1861, by Wendell Phillips, F. B. Sanborn and others, who were mobbed exactly as Garrison was mobbed thirty years earlier.
The Mayor would do nothing to protect them, and when Wendell Phillips went to seek assistance from Andrew the latter declined to interfere.
It would be a serious matter to interfere with the Mayor, and he did not feel that the occasion demanded it. Moreover he considered the celebration at that time to be prejudicial to the harmony of the Union cause.
Phillips was already very much irritated and left the Governor's office in no friendly mood.
Andrew might have said to him: “You have been mobbed; what more do you want?
There is no more desirable honor than to be mobbed in a good cause.”
Governor Andrew's appointments continued to be so favorable to the Democrats that Martin F. Conway, the member of Congress from Kansas, said: “The Governor has come into power with the help of his friends, and he intends to retain it by conciliating his opponents.”
It certainly looked like this; but no one who knew Andrew intimately would believe that he acted from interested motives.
Moreover it was wholly unnecessary to conciliate them.
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