1865/05/06
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
to Salmon P. Chase re: argument against accepting the negro as an equal
"I am not yet prepared to receive the Negro on terms of political Equality for the reason that it will arouse passions and predjudices of the North, which...might rekindle the war whose fires are now dying out and by skillful management may be kept...
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