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Letter to] My dear sir [manuscript

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Holograph, signedTitle supplied by catalogerMay informs Estlin that he has not had time to supply information for the second edition of "A Brief Notice of American Slavery, and the Abolition Movement." May recommends Parker Pillsbury's "The Church as It Is: or, the Forlorn Hope of Slavery," but condemns Henry Clapp, Jr. and says that there is nothing in his story about Nathaniel Peabody Rogers. He denies Clapp's assertion that William Lloyd Garrison never advocated disunion in the United States. He says that the Liberty Party was strongly pro-Union and it is doubtful if it suffered more from unpopularity than the old Abolitionists. May affirms that the abolition movement requires great fortitude
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