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Holograph, signedTitle devised by catalogerAddressed to "William Lloyd Garrison, Care of William Smeal, Glasgow, Scotland"Francis Jackson writes William Lloyd Garrison to appraise him of recent activity in Boston pertinent to the Anti-Slavery Society. Jackson informs Garrison that there have been four meetings at Faneuil Hall, and a lecture by Rev. E.N. Kink that are worth considering. Jackson states that the Democratic State Convention was plagued by low attendence, that the Whig Convention showed a stark fracture between pro-slavery ("Cotton") Whigs and anti-slavery ("Conscience") Whigs, and that John Quincy Adams presided over a meeting in support of a fugitive slave who was kidnapped in Boston and sent to New Orleans. In closing, Jackson describes Rev. Kink's lecture on the convention of the formation of the Evangelical Alliance

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