Saturday, June 27, 2015

Congressman Charles Baldwin Sedgwick to John M. Forbes, March 6, 1862 – 4 p.m.

Washington, 18 May, 1862.

. . . I hope God will give his servant Abraham the grace to stand by his general and not let the border state men sacrifice him. I cannot say, however, that I have the highest degree of faith in a president who thinks it necessary to salvation to allow the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law in this District at this time. . . .

SOURCE: Sarah Forbes Hughes, Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, Volume 1, p. 308-9

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