Letter from Samuel May, Jr., Leicester, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garrison, July 25 / [18]76
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Samuel May, Jr. thanks William Lloyd Garrison for his delivery of the "Independent" of the 6th, and expresses his joy that Garrison is still living to "hold up the mirror to the people, and make them see the things to which they would gladly be blind forever". Referencing the "Hamburg slaughter", May asserts that the United States is "nursing vipers in our bosom", and that the "people seem to be sleeping in a fatal security". May predicts that the "triumph of the Democratic party" in the upcoming electiosn will be an "awful calamity indeed", and states his fear that they will "have got to go through many a bloody scene yet, before the colored people of the South are safe to exercise & enjoy the ordinary rights of men & citizens". May offers his belief that Governor Chamberlain find and deliver to justice the "authors of that infernal slaughter".
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- Abolitionists
- African American Troops
- African Americans
- Antislavery Movements
- Chamberlain, Daniel Henry 1835 1907
- Correspondence
- Democratic Party (U.S.)
- Freedmen
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- Hamburg Massacre, South Carolina, 1876
- History
- May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
- Race Relations
- Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877)
- Republican Party (U.S. : 1854)
- Slaver
- Social Reformers
- South Carolina
- Southern States
- United States
- Violence
- Violence Against