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Letter from John Greenleaf Whittier, Lowell, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1844 [Septhember] 10th

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.John Greenleaf Whittier writes to William Lloyd Garrison about a "sweeping charge against Liberty party journals of having for their object to aid [President James K.] Polk & Texas & c." Whittier explains his behavior and claims "justice", stating that "unless William Lloyd Garrison has ... changed from what he was when we stood shoulder by shoulder in the old struggles of abolition I shall not claim it in vain."
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Annexation To The United States
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Correspondence
  5. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  6. History
  7. Liberty Party (U.S. : 1840 1848)
  8. Slaver
  9. Social Reformers
  10. Texas
  11. United States
  12. Whittier, John Greenleaf 1807 1892

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