Wigham, Henry

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Henry Wigham writes to William Lloyd Garrison commenting on "the course which Frederick Douglass has pursued". Wigham calls it "mournful to see a man of great intellect so far the slave of his passions as to sacrifice the interests of his race ... by attempting to bring reproach upon the tried friends of the Anti-Slavery Cause". He adds that "the highminded Frederick Douglass has indeed fallen low when he begs from Harriet Beecher Stowe £300 to support his paper." Wigham also discusses the death and creation of two British antislavery societies and a visit by Parker Pillsbury to his sister, Eliza Wigham, in Dublin, Ireland. He then describes the successful lectures of John B. Gough in Ediburgh and remarks on the success of the latest American Anti-Slavery Society Anniversary in Philadelphia, that "it is most cheering to learn that public opinion in America is changing in favour of your cause."

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