Friday, May 11, 2018

Franklin B. Sanborn to George L. Stearns, March 1858

dear Friend:

It will not be convenient for me to attend the meeting to-morrow, nor do I see what we can do as a committee in the present state of affairs. If 75,000 people who have sworn to resist the Lecompton fraud cannot do so successfully, we as a committee cannot help them. They will yield to the administration or there will be a fight — in either case our present committee could not assist them much. I think the administration will give in — because I believe they must. Still, any measures which the majority of the committee should adopt would have my entire cooperation, I have no doubt.

Yours ever,
F. B. Sanborn.

SOURCE: Frank Preston Stearns, The Life and Public Services of George Luther Stearns, p. 166-7

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