Letter from Oliver Johnson, New York, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, 3 May, 1865
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Letter addressed from Anti-Slavery Office.Johnson writes Garrison to urge him to be "clear and emphatic" on two points in his resolutions and address for the upcoming anniversary meeting: one, that the proposal to dissolve the American Anti-Slavery Society is not a shirking of their duties, but a readjusting to the demands of those duties to better meet them; and two, that he introduce the "question of Negro Suffrage" at such a point to gain the upper hand over Phillips on the matter. Johnson remarks that the Herald has called for African-American suffrage as part of Johnson's Reconstruction of the South. Johnson closes by informing Garrison that African American abolitionists held a meeting at Shiloh Church in which they denounced the American Anti-Slavery Society's proposal to dissolve as being guilty of "bad faith", and complains that they have hardly ever supported the Society in its abolitionist efforts.
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- Abolitionists
- African American Abolitionists
- African Americans
- American Anti Slavery Society
- Antislavery Movements
- Congresses
- Congresses And Conventions
- Correspondence
- Douglass, Frederick 1818 1895
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Johnson, Andrew 1808 1875
- Johnson, Oliver 1809 1889
- Lincoln, Abraham 1809 1865
- National Anti Slavery Standard
- Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
- Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877)
- Slaver
- Suffrage
- United States