Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Aug[ust] 29 1854
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Samuel Joseph May inquires of William Lloyd Garrison if he deems the time right to commence advertising the meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, to be held in Syracuse, N.Y. on September 29-30, with notices in all the antislavery newspapers and the Tribune. May asserts that Garrison's and Wendell Phillips's attendance alone would draw a large crowd, but states his hopes that other luminaries will attend, as well. May writes that he has invited Theodore Parker to preach in his church on October 1st, and to join them for the meeting beforehand. May provides Garrison with specifics concerning potential locations, their capacity, and their respective costs. May declares to Garrison that he finds the Know-Nothings to comprise a "disturbing element in the poltical atmosphere", and laments that the United States is controlled by "political parties that are based upon nothing but opposition to each other in a strife after the ascendency". May relates to Garrison that they remain in need of a reporter for the upcoming convention.
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- Abolitionists
- American Anti Slavery Society
- American Party
- Antislavery Movements
- Congresses
- Congresses And Conventions
- Correspondence
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797 1871
- National Anti Slavery Standard
- Parker, Theodore 1810 1860
- Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
- Slaver
- Social Reformers
- United States