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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.John Anderson Collins writes to William Lloyd Garrison asking him to include "the call for the convention at Springfield" in the Liberator. Collins tells Garrison that he should "bring this convention prominently before the readers of the Liberator. You have the power of making the convention a large one, & it is a power too which no one possesses but yourself." He then discusses the relationship between party politics and abolitionism, stating that many people "would sooner forgo their abolitionism than their [political] party ..." Collins argues that "7/10 of the voting abolitionists of the stat[e]" feel this way and "these men are worth saving." He tells Garrison political issues have "taken entire possession of them" and they are "entirely unconscious of the demoralyzing [sic] influence of their course." Collins states that "Every man who thus goes for his party is doing more injury to the cause than 50 proslavery men."

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