Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Oliver Johnson, May 21, 1865
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Holograph, signed.William Lloyd Garrison praises Oliver Johnson's "valediction" in the last issue National Anti-Slavery Standard. Garrison writes: "I was glad to see Mr. May's letter. It is frank, manly, and right to the point. But it (with your article) will certainly "raise a breeze" in a certain quarter, and you must both be prepared for sharp replications in the Standard." [Samuel?] May's resolution of thanks to Edmund Quincy and Oliver Johnson was voted down. May questioned the use of the American Anti-Slavery's money to support the National Anti-Slavery Standard under Parker Pillsbury's editorship. Garrison comments on A. M. Powell's omission to check names in a roll call taken at a American Anti-Slavery Society meeting.Includes an envelope with the delivery address: Oliver Johnson, Esq., Anti-Slavery Office, 48 Beekman Street, New York City, N.Y.Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.5, no.113.
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- Abolitionists
- American Anti Slavery Society
- Antislavery Movements
- Correspondence
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Johnson, Oliver 1809 1889
- May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
- National Anti Slavery Standard
- Pillsbury, Parker 1809 1898
- Powell, Aaron M. (Aaron Macy) 1832 1899
- Quincy, Edmund 1808 1877
- Slaver
- United States