Letter from Oliver Johnson, New York, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, 16 July, 1863
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Letter addressed from Anti-Slavery Office.Johnson notifies Garrison that he was unable to publish the materials forwarded to him by Garrison owing to their delayed arrival, which made inclusion in the Standard impossible. Johnson describes to Garrison the state obtaining in the city following the Draft Riot as "fearful", and denounces the mob as a conspiracy between the "Southern rebels and their Northern allies".
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Digital CommonwealthKeywords
- Abolitionists
- American Anti Slavery Society
- Antislavery Movements
- Civil War
- Civil War, 1861 1865
- Copperhead Movement
- Correspondence
- Dix, John A. (John Adams) 1798 1879
- Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Johnson, Oliver 1809 1889
- Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
- Lincoln, Abraham 1809 1865
- National Anti Slavery Standard
- New York Tribune (New York, N.Y. : 1841)
- Slaver
- United States
- Wool, John Ellis 1784 1869