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Letter from Samuel May, Jr., Leicester, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garrison, April 28 / [18]79

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Samuel May, Jr. offers his gratitude for Garrison's "renewed & hearty" invitation to join their "travelling party" for a proposed summer journey to England. May states that he would be delighted to accompany Garrison and visit their English friends, but declares that he must abstain, stating that since the death of his father he has resolved to not travel far from home while his aged mother still lived. May adds that the "financial disaster" which has afflicted the "business firm of May and Co" prevents him from undertaking such a voyage, as his brother stands on the brink of ruin. May informs Garrison that he has seen his letter to W. G. Eliot, and labels as "preposterous & deceptive" the assertion found in the Boston Daily Advertiser that Eliot "ranked in former times with the antislavery men", declaring that Eliot possesed an "abundance of contempt" for the abolitionists. May expresses his disagreement with John Albion Andrew's proposal for the governing of the South during Reconstruction, and his accord with Sumner's proposal to govern the former Confederate states as Territories. May asserts that the readmission of the former Confederate states to the Union with "full political rights" was "the great mistake", and harshly rebukes the governing policy of the Republican party. May states his belief that Hayes ought to be supported by the abolitionists.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. African Americans
  3. Andrew, John A. (John Albion) 1818 1867
  4. Antislavery Movements
  5. Chamberlain, Daniel Henry 1835 1907
  6. Civil Rights
  7. Correspondence
  8. Eliot, William Greenleaf 1811 1887
  9. Equality Before The Law
  10. Freedmen
  11. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  12. Hayes, Rutherford B. 1822 1893
  13. History
  14. Ku Klux Klan (19 Th Century)
  15. May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
  16. Race Relations
  17. Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877)
  18. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854)
  19. Slaver
  20. Social Reformers
  21. Southern States
  22. Sumner, Charles 1811 1874
  23. Terrorism
  24. United States
  25. Violence
  26. Violence Against

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