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I wanted to know if he was their friend Üif he was their friend, we knew he was a a politician that could be trusted. You Satis‚ed me. You told me what Mr. Lin-coln's private views were, and led me in to a sight of his heart. You remember that after that, as long as I printed the Western Citizen or Free West3 it was sent to your of‚ce. I supposed Mr Lincoln read it some times.
You may perhaps remember that after that time there was no opposition to Mr Lincoln from the abolitionists proper. They were in a party of their own, and from repeated betrayals, had learned to distrust all professions of mere politicians. They gave their con‚dence to men that were worthy of it, Üas they gave it to Washburne and Morton.4
After that visit I told all my Liberty Party friends to stand by Abraham Lincoln. These were times when he could hardly have expected to have received any of‚ce in Illinois. Dr. Dyer5 was particularly in unison with me in these views. The abolitionists soon learned that we were all to be in harmony with Abraham Lincoln.
Dr. Dyer received the appointment by Mr Lincoln as Judge of the African Slave Trade Court. He sent me to this place6 Üafter he had had a con‚dential interview with me at 7 o'clock in the morning. It is a pleasant thing to remember, as Mr. Lincoln told Dyer, Üit was a great pleasure to him to appoint old abolitionists to of‚ce. Surely he was the Negro's friend. Therefore he became that eminently successful man. How different from those who preach the doctrine, that ¿Black men had no rights which white men were bound to respect.î
Very truly yours,
Z. Eastman
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113. Elizabeth Crawford to WHH
January the 4th 1866 Dear Sir
i received your letter of September the 28 and also another of December the 15 i beg to excuesed for not ancern your ‚rst letter as i was very buissy ageting ready to Sart to nelson County ky to See about my fathers estate and as you did not Say eny thing about us riting to you we neglected as we Concluded t[hat] you had got all the information that you wanted thair was one thing th[at] i did not think of teling you when you was here that was the ‚ore you was Setting on when you was here was plank that abraham lincoln whip Sawed about the year 1830
3.
Eastman edited the Western Citizen in Chicago, 1842¬53. In 1853 its name was changed to Free West, and two years later it was merged with the Chicago Tribune.
4.
Elihu B. Washburne (1816¬87), Republican congressman from Galena, Illinois; and Oliver H. P. Morton (1823¬77), Civil War governor of Indiana.
5.
Charles V. Dyer (1808¬78), Chicago physician and an avowed opponent of slavery.
6.
AL appointed Eastman consul at Bristol, England, where he served until 1869.
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