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Holograph, signedWilliam Lloyd Garrison advises sending a hundred copies of the National Anti-Slavery Standard to members of Congress. Garrison comments on Abraham Lincoln: "What a wishy-washy message from the President! It is more and more evident that he is a man of very small calibre, and had better be at his old business of splitting rails than at the head of a government like ours, especially in such a crisis. He has evidently not a drop of anti-slavery blood in his veins; and he seems incapable of uttering a humane or generous sentiment respecting the enslaved millions in our land." Garrison points out the newspapers that are Lincoln's admirers. He shudders at the possibility of the war ending without the extinction of slavery. All who denounce and oppose emancipation must be branded as accessories to Southern treason. Garrison hopes that Mayor J. M. Wightman of Boston will be ejected, as was Mayor Wood of New York. Last week, Garrison was confined to the house with an inflammation of the eye. His wife was ill at the same time. Garrison comments on Henry Ward Beecher's "practically pro-slavery sentiments."Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison

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