J[ames] R[awson] Johnson to Frederick Douglass, October 29, 1856

PREPRAE FOR FUTURE CONTESTS WITH SLAVERY.

NEWFIELD, Thompkins Co., Oct. 29, 1856.

FRIEND DOUGLASS:—This paragraph will probably meet your readers, while they are watching telegraphic reports and trying to reconcile conflicting accounts and hoping that the non-extension banner has triumphed.

Some say—"If FREMONT is not elected we will give up." That will not do. God may permit the pro-slavery power now to triumph, to insure its more speedily and more complete to overflow. God is against Slavery; and he will not suffer its advocates to gain any temporary advantage, only so far as such apparent conquests shall be made subservient to the glorious work of the Abolition of American Slavery.

Yours, in strong hope,

J. R. JOHNSON.