To Thurlow Weed1Jump to section
My dear Sir Washington, January 29. 1863.
Your valedictory to the patrons of the Albany Evening Journal brings me a good deal of uneasiness. What does it mean? Yours truly A. LINCOLN.
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[1] ADfS, DLC-RTL. Weed's reply of February 1, 1863, reads as follows:
``I retired from an apprehension that I was doing more harm than good. I could not remain without remonstrance against a Spirit by which you are persecuted, and which I know will end our Union and Government. It is impossible, just now, to resist Fanaticism---a Fanaticism which divides the North and deprives you of the support essential, vital in-deed, to the Life of the Republic. Its constant cry is: `Give! Give!' and the more you give the more it demands.
``They accuse me of `opposing the Administration.' I answered that falsehood yesterday, and sent Mr. Nicolay a Paper. I have labored to shield the Administration from their persecution.
``There is crazy `method' in Greeley's Abolitionism. He has the Presidency on his Brain. He ran `Maine Law' into the ground expecting to make himself