Record Data
Source citation
Andrew Johnson, Paul Bergeron (ed), The Papers of Andrew Johnson: Volume 10, February-July 1866 (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1992), 131.
Type
Letter
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
John Osborne, Dickinson College
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Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
Washington Feb. 20, 1866
Your message has made millions of good hearts glad and grateful for it has saved the nation. You ought to be - I hope you will be - sustained by every man who loves Peace and Union. The high ground you take will insure you aneasy and complete defense against all opposers; and you will realise the great truth that "Peace hath her victories more renowned than those of War."
I do not write this because I think that my individual opinion is of any account but because I know that I share what will be the universal sentiment as soon as the passions of the hour shall cool. In the meantime "let the heathen rage;" there is no danger that "the people will imagine a vain thing."
J.S. Black
