However, it also called for the restoration of white political rule, arguing that "It is true that the people of the South, in common with a large majority of the people of the North and West, are, for obvious reasons, inflexibly opposed to any system of laws that would place the political power of the country in the hands of the negro race.
Brevet forlangte også genskabelse af de hvides politiske styre, idet "det er sandt, at folk i Syden, i lighed med den store majoritet af folk i nord og vest af åbenlyse grunde er ubøjelige modstandere af ethvert system af love, som lægger den politiske magt i landet i hænderne på negrene.