Letter from Anne Warren Weston, Boston, to Deborah Weston, January 30th, 1837, Monday
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Holograph, signed.Anne Warren Weston describes the Anti-Slavery meeting which was held in the stable-loft of the Marlborough Hotel. Garrison read the Annual Report, which was a "most masterly production." Moses Thacher stated that he had received a letter from "a lady" who had been a slave, indicating that "it was one of the women who ran away from the [Boston] Court House." Other speakers were "Brother [Samuel J.] May," Mr. Cyrus Pitt Grosvenor, Henry Brewster Stanton, and [William Lawrence?] Chaplin. More than a thousand were present and many could not get in. Amos Dresser told "the Nashville story. He is a small delicate, pretty looking young man... Great sobbing was heard all over the room." Anne also describes the evening meeting at the State House. After Orange Scott, Ellis Gray Loring spoke in his "little happy quiet soft way." First describing [Thomas] Clarkson, he spoke of Garrison--"...this brought down a tremendous clap, interspersed with a few hisses." Henry B. Stanton made a speech on slavery in the District of Columbia. "It was one of those Free Discussion flourishes, in which his soul so much delights." Mr. Dresser retold his story, because the audience clamored for his immediate appearance. "He was clapped uproariously." Anne describes the meeting the next morning, again in the stable. Mr. [David] Root, Mr. Philemon R. Russell, Amasa Walker, and Mr. [Charles] Fitch spoke. Then Robert Williams, a black man living in Boston told his story, of which part of "the scene was laid in Weymouth." The...
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- Antislavery Movements
- Benson, Henry Egbert 1814 1837
- Boston
- Chaplin, William L. (William Lawrence) 1796 1871
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Correspondence
- Dresser, Amos 1812 1904
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Loring, Ellis Gray 1803 1858
- Massachusetts
- Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
- Root, David 1791 1873
- Slaver
- Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster) 1805 1887
- Thacher, Moses 1795 1878
- United States
- Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
- Weston, Deborah B. 1814
- Williams, Robert
- Women
- Women Abolitionists