Letter from Abby Kelley Foster, Utica, [New York], to Maria Weston Chapman, Mar[ch] 8, [18]43
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Holograph, signed.Abby Kelley Foster wants Maria Weston Chapman to take charge of the National Anti-Slavery Standard to unify the factions. John A. Collins is not "disposed to do those things that make for peace in the American Society." With all his unbounded "liberality," Collins is intolerant of those who differ from him. There is no unity in the Third Party faction. The Liberty Press is held in contempt. Charles T. Torrey's Daily Patriot has become a weekly "and is now so weakly its existence is desparied of." The American Citizen has come to an end. The American Society must do something about political action, to which doctrine there have been many converts during the last year. Abby Kelley Foster explains her political position: giving no support to slavery in church or state may be voted for. She regrets that Mrs. Lydia Maria Child opposes this view. She compares the "total pledge" in the anti-slavery cause to teetotal abstinence in the temperance cause.
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- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Collins, John A. (John Anderson) 1810 1879
- Correspondence
- Foster, Abby Kelley 1811 1887
- History
- Massachusetts
- National Anti Slavery Standard
- Political Participation
- Slaver
- Third Parties (United States Politics)
- Torrey, Charles T. (Charles Turner) 1813 1846
- United States
- Women
- Women Abolitionists