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Letter from Lydia Mott, Albany, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, May 8 1861

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Mott, Lydia

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Lydia Mott asserts to William Lloyd Garrison that there "never was a time" in which the "friends of peace" were "called upon to bear a more faithful testimony" than the present, and express her disappointment that some within the non-resistance movement have abandoned these principles to "help arm the troops", and act she views as hypocritical in regards to the prevailing Constitutionality of slavery. Mott declares that circumstances cannot "change Eternal principles", and that those who view the Civil War as the act of God and not "from our own Evil doing in compromising with wrong" are mistaken. Mott states her grief at having heard May compare the "sacrifices made for this war" to the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth, labeling this assertion to be "almost blasphemous". Mott asserts her belief that even should the war result in the abolition of slavery that it would still not "make it right for us to participate in the Evil".
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Christianity
  4. Civil War
  5. Civil War, 1861 1865
  6. Correspondence
  7. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  8. History
  9. Massachusetts Abolitionist
  10. Mott, Lydia
  11. Nonviolence
  12. Pacifism
  13. Pacifists
  14. Peace Movements
  15. Religious Aspects
  16. Slaver
  17. Smith, Gerrit 1797 1874
  18. Social Reformers
  19. United States
  20. Women
  21. Women Abolitionists

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