Letter about the Lincoln-McClellan campaign by Reverdy Johnson

Letter about the Lincoln-McClellan campaign by former Attorney General, Reverdy Johnson supporter of McClellan. Believing that Lincoln's actions on emancipation and other areas to be illegal, he states "I hope you can keep the case before the public. Unless we are willing to submit to near tyranny, it is impossible but that this last outrage of our Pres. will meet with the sternest rebuke on Nov. 2. The letter is dated October 10, 1864 from Baltimore and marked "Private."

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