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Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1862 October 28

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Richard Davis Webb writes to William Lloyd Garrison informing him that his son, Richard Webb, is leaving Ireland "to seek his future in California." He tells Garrison of his "unbated interests in all your efforts" and discusses his last visit with Elizabeth Pease Nichol. Webb also recommends Garrison read the book, "Trial of the Constitution" by Sidney George Foster saying it justified the work of abolitionists "such as I have seen from the pen of no other American, not himself one of 'the Saints.'" He also mentions hearing Henry Ward Beecher speak recently in Edinburgh, finding him not "up to the moral bent of Wendell Phillips." Webb closes by discussing views of the American Civil War, blaiming the "conduct of reckless English & American newspaper editors" for initially encouraging anti-Union sentiments.
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