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Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Anne Greene Chapman Dicey, Sunday, July 6, [1862]

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Holograph, signed with initials.In this letter, Maria Weston Chapman discusses the news "that the army has met with disaster--owing to want of men. Overpowered by numbers, seems to be the cry..." General Stonewall Jackson was reported killed. Chapman mentions certain princes who "were ubiquitous on board every ship in the fleet at the same time. They rallied & led the men, fighting like American citizens & French princes under one." Chapman considers him best who battles for the world's advance. Chapman said: "I am sorry to see ignorance & prejudice on all sides prevailing." A set of people are afraid of war with France and England. The ideological warfare is slow, because people are at war in their own minds. Chapman said: "They who have renounced slavery in their own hearts, have yet a pride in not acknowledging that this is a revolution,--& cry 'the Union & Constitution as they were in 1860.'--This makes the U.S. appear scarcely better to the world at large than the Rebels." Chapman daily observes political selfishness at work. She said: "All this mingling of reasoning & feeling sprung up in my mind on hearing a pro-slavery patriot rail against Europe." To those who imagine her identified in feeling with the English nobility, Maria W. Chapman replies: "It is no part of my mission to defend Duchesses." She discourses on the wrong attitude of American patriots twoard the Lancashire cotton workers. Chapman comments that "Garrison is shining at this hour in contrast with Pillsbury &...
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  1. Antislavery Movements
  2. Boston
  3. Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
  4. Civil War
  5. Civil War, 1861 1865
  6. Correspondence
  7. Dicey, Anne Greene Chapman D. 1879
  8. Follen, Charles 1796 1840
  9. Great Britain
  10. History
  11. Massachusetts
  12. Slaver
  13. United States
  14. Women
  15. Women Abolitionists

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