JOHNSON, Andrew (1808-1875), President . Letter signed ("Andrew Johnson") to John A. Andrew, Washington, D.C., 18 September 1867. 1 page, 8vo, Executive Mansion stationery . JOHNSON PROMISES A LUCRATIVE POST TO THE FORMER ABOLITIONIST GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS. "I received this morning your letter of yesterday," President Johnson begins, "and beg to assure you that if Mr. Ashmun's place should become vacant, it will afford me great pleasure to select you as his successor in the Board of Directors of the Pacific Railroad." Andrews never got the post. Just one year after leaving the governorship, and only 48 years of age, he died after a brief illness on 30 October 1867. Friends thought his long and tireless work in the anti-slavery cause had exhausted him and helped hasten his death. An activist in the abolitionist cause since the late 1830s, he rose to prominence in Massachusetts politics, working with the Free Soil and then the Republican parties. He unapologetically defended John Brown's raid in 1859, helped mobilize the sizable forces that Massachusetts put into the field, and in 1863 even formed--in conjunction with Frederick Douglass--the first regiment of black soldiers, the famous 54th under the command of Col. Robert Gould Shaw.
JOHNSON, Andrew (1808-1875), President . Letter signed ("Andrew Johnson") to John A. Andrew, Washington, D.C., 18 September 1867. 1 page, 8vo, Executive Mansion stationery . JOHNSON PROMISES A LUCRATIVE POST TO THE FORMER ABOLITIONIST GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS. "I received this morning your letter of yesterday," President Johnson begins, "and beg to assure you that if Mr. Ashmun's place should become vacant, it will afford me great pleasure to select you as his successor in the Board of Directors of the Pacific Railroad." Andrews never got the post. Just one year after leaving the governorship, and only 48 years of age, he died after a brief illness on 30 October 1867. Friends thought his long and tireless work in the anti-slavery cause had exhausted him and helped hasten his death. An activist in the abolitionist cause since the late 1830s, he rose to prominence in Massachusetts politics, working with the Free Soil and then the Republican parties. He unapologetically defended John Brown's raid in 1859, helped mobilize the sizable forces that Massachusetts put into the field, and in 1863 even formed--in conjunction with Frederick Douglass--the first regiment of black soldiers, the famous 54th under the command of Col. Robert Gould Shaw.
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