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Letter from David Lee Child, New York, to Maria Weston Chapman, Sep. 13, 1843

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Holograph, signed with initials.David Lee Child thinks that Maria Weston Chapman does not do justice "to our strong-hearted James S. Gibbons." Child feels a great respect for him. Child said: "I am going to publish a set of interrogatories adapted to most elections." He thinks it wrong to have been so indolent and distrustful "about this instrumentality." He comments on the fire kindled by Edward Everett's reply. "It flared up to the teror and dismay of the slavemongers. When a candidate has answered our letters favorably, he becomes an object of suspicion & proscription with them." Child is thinking with secret satisfaction of the Philadelphia meeting. Abby Kelley denounces him as a "traitor in all but 'overt acts.'"
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