Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, New York [City], 46 W. 17th St[reet], [NY], to Elizabeth Bates Chapman Laugel, Sept. 24th, 1862
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Holograph, signed with initials.Maria Weston Chapman is at her son Henry's home, after a week at Staten Island. She describes life in the house. Mr. Jay, after being rejected from the delegateship of his Bedford church to the Episcopal convocation, has presented himself for the nomination of St. Phillips, the New York black church. She discusses Lincoln's proclamation. "All but the worst of pro-slavery democrats are disappointed with it as not going fast enough or far enough... Henry is ready to slay old Abe." Emancipation with compensation "stinks in the nostrils of people." She believes that Daniel Webster is taking care of the interests of the cotton manufacturers. She tells of the Democrats taunting the Republicans and the plentifulness of such epithets as "secessionist." If the Democrats "do as they threatened, i.e. call back their troops from the army because emancipation is revolution & so on, why the saddle will be on the other hourse." Chapman tells about her idea of colonizing [the South]. She fears that young Hovey has been wounded. Chapman would be "terribly afflicted to see Europe, looking on, blind to the case," when we have to look to other lands for counsel "at a time when we really have for statesmanship a feeble dolt & a selfish knave, for political philosopher, not one." She criticizes [George Brinton] McClellan. She praises Harriet Martineau "for she knows as well as feels aright; while in these last matters all our abolitionists but Garrison, have shown themselves utterly unequal to...
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- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Chapman, Henry Grafton 1833 1883
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Civil War
- Civil War, 1861 1865
- Correspondence
- Democratic Party (U.S.)
- History
- Jay, John 1817 1894
- Laugel, Elizabeth Bates Chapman B. 1831
- Lincoln, Abraham 1809 1865
- Martineau, Harriet 1802 1876
- Massachusetts
- Mc Clellan, George B. (George Brinton) 1826 1885
- Shaw, Robert Gould 1837 1863
- Slaver
- United States
- United States President (1861 1865 : Lincoln)
- Women
- Women Abolitionists