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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.On verso, the letter is addressed to "Wm L. Garrison Brooklyn, Conn."Henry Clarke Wright writes to William Lloyd Garrison saying he "regret[s] exceedingly that you cannot be in this city at present." He insists that no compromise should me made "to conciliate the good will of those who are opposed to us" and that "there shall be no faultering, no not a hair-breadth, in our abolition ranks." Wright admits that he is "comparatively a stranger in the [abolition] ranks" and shares his love for George Thompson, mentioning that he was glad to meet him before "he was so murderously driven from among us." He then argues that it is their duty "to apply to men the same terms which we apply to their principles," and so he is "heartily sick of hearing people find fault with the harsh, personal language, as it is called of the abolitionists" and found in the Liberator. Wright also mentions discussions about a convention "to consider the subject of freedom of the press & of speech & the subject of Mobs &c," telling Garrison that it would convince Southerners "that we shall never yield their rights to slavery."

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