New Orleans, Sunday, Dec. 12.
Dear Brother: .
. . I have watched the despatches, which are up to Dec. 10, and hoped your election
would occur without the usual excitement, and believe such would have been the
case had it not been for your signing for that Helper's
book. Of it I know nothing, but extracts made copiously in southern papers
show it to be not only abolition but assailing. Now I hoped you would be
theoretical and not practical, for practical abolition is disunion, Civil War,
and anarchy universal on this continent, and I do not believe you want that. .
. I do hope the discussion in Congress will not be protracted, and that your
election, if possible, will occur soon. Write me how you came to sign for that
book. Now that you are in, I hope you will conduct yourself manfully. Bear with
taunts as far as possible, biding your time to retaliate. An opportunity always
occurs.
SOURCES: Walter L. Fleming, General W.T.
Sherman as College President, p. 77-8
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