Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, New York, to Helen Eliza Garrison, May 13, 1857
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Holograph, signed.The morning meeting was held in the immense hall. The speakers were Thomas W. Higginson, Parker Pillsbury, Robert Purvis, and Wendell Phillips. There was an even greater enthusiasm at the evening meeting. The Rev. Mr. James Renwick Sloane, a Covenanter, gave an "impressive speech of a most radical character." There were other speeches made by Dr. William Henry Furness and Charles Lenox Remond. Wendell Phillips "surpassed himself in a magnificent speech of upwards of an hour." The strongest declarations were most enthusiastically applauded. William Lloyd Garrison met J. C. Underwood, who was compelled to flee from Virginia because he favored John C. Fremont for President. Garrison gives news of George William Benson and family. Garrison saw "Miss Safshefka," whose Women's Institution was inaugurated today. (Misspelling of Dr. Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, who opened the New York Infirmary for Women and Children.) Garrison mentions the various delegates and friends present at a private meeting. Garrison expects to speak tonight. The Rev. O. B. Frothingham is to speak this forenoon.Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.4, no.165.
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- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Benson, George William 1808 1879
- Correspondence
- Furness, William Henry 1802 1896
- Garrison, Helen Eliza 1811 1876
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 1823 1911
- History
- Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
- Pillsbury, Parker 1809 1898
- Purvis, Robert 1810 1898
- Remond, Charles Lenox 1810 1873
- Slaver
- Sloane, J. R. W. (James Renwick Wilson) 1823 1886
- Underwood, John C. (John Curtiss) 1809 1873
- United States
- Zakrzewska, Marie E. (Marie Elizabeth) 1829 1902