Frederick Douglass to Gerrit Smith, December 1865

Dec. 1865

Hon: Gerrit Smith:

I hope you have succeeded in teaching Chicago to keep a Civil and truthful tongue. I am obliged by your kind note. Garnet has not yet replied. He will not spare me—just as I am again leaving home for the East—the enclosed note for you comes—from my Dear friend Julia, I gladly forward it—

We must demand Suffrage—but rejoice if we can get the Slave Code abolished—and future ones made impossible.

Your true and ever

Grateful friend

Fredk Douglass