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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.On verso, the letter is addressed to "William Lloyd Garrison. Boston."In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Samuel Joseph May describes a lecture he delivered in Hanson, Massachusetts, "on the non reistance principles of the Gospel." He then tells Garrison he will not attend the "Quarterly meeting tomorrow" of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society as he needs to write a sermon and attend to "other parochial duties." He also apologizes for putting "the matter" before the state organization instead of the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society. May discusses the conflict between the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and the American Anti-Slavery Society, stating there appears to be "a mutual distrust, not to say jealousy between the parties". He mentions they have "made several attempts to devise some plan upon which the two could operate harmoniously ... [but they] have not yet hit upon such a plan". He wishes he "had time to write my views more fully" and but shares his "dread [for] the meeting that is to take place tomorrow," predicting that it "will prove little else but that the parties are no longer brethren in the cause." He warns that the meeting "will be a day of rejoicing to the enemies of impartial liberty and a day of sorrow and shame to its friends."

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