Letter from James Haughton, 35 Eccles St., Dublin, [Ireland], to Maria Weston Chapman, 14th Oct. 1844
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Holograph, signed.James Haughton has no objection to Maria Weston Chapman publishing a portion of a earlier letter relative to Ireland and O'Connell. Daniel O'Connell and his companions have been set free to the frenzied joy of the people. James Haughton did not attend the public dinner, which was disgraced by much drinking. He comments on the temperance movement. He contrasts American and Irish teetotalism. Father Mathews's influence is still great. However, he has spent his own and others property on the cause, so that an appeal on his behalf is necessary. Haughton tells of his conversion to teetotalism. Haughton's wife died over fifteen years ago, leaving him with four daughters and a son. Haughton thanks Maria W. Chapman for her expression of sentiment on the sugar question, although she has not convinced him. He argues against free trade in sugar with Brazil and Cuba because it would help slavery. Henry C. Wright, who was here, agrees with Maria W. Chapman on this matter. Haughton comments on Unitarians here as being "snug" in respect to reform.There are two layers of writing, lengthwise and crosswise, on all four pages of this letter.
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- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Correspondence
- Free Trade
- Haughton, James 1795 1873
- History
- Massachusetts
- Mathew, Theobald 1790 1856
- O'connell, Daniel 1775 1847
- Slaver
- Temperance
- United States
- Women
- Women Abolitionists
- Wright, Henry Clarke 1797 1870