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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.On verso, the letter is addressed to "William Lloyd Garrison Liberator office Boston Massachusetts."James Caleb Jackson writes to William Lloyd Garrison that he has returned home healthy and is now with his family and Joseph C. Hathaway. He says that he had "undergone a series of afflictions ... but the loss of my reason for a time was a source of great grief." Now, Jackson is "again among those who have thought, reason, Judgement, & can use them." He thanks Garrison for his "kind letter ... for the proof of your love to me. It is not forgotten." He also says he is "thankful the [abolitionist] political party scheme is going down" and encourages Garrison to write Gerrit Smith and share his opposition to the plan as well. Jackson passes on a suggestion from Charles C. Burleigh to have Samuel Joseph May's "letter on Non-Resistance which you copied not long since in to the Liberator printed in pamphlet form" and states that he has had no reply to a long letter he wrote to George Bradburn. He also argues Massachusetts abolitionists should work on "getting the odious colored law repealed this session" and for "the Legislature to take some ground upon Slavery in the District of Columbia." Jackson asserts, "This warfare must be of that open manly kind which exhibits how much confidence he has in the jusitice of his cause."

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