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Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Syracuse, [N.Y.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Samuel May, Jr., Wendell Phillips, and Robert Folger Wallcut, Feb[ruary] 26 [18]55

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript recto is annotated (by author) on top of page, reading "Haste! Haste!!"Samuel Joseph May writes William Lloyd Garrison, Samuel May, Jr., Wendell Phillips, and Roger Folger Wallcut informing them of the petitions before the New York State Legislature to pass a set of laws protecting fugitive slaves and punishing would-be "kidnappers". May admits that the petition is "hastily worded" and lacking in the "provisions we need", but states that the Chairman of the Special Committee is favorably inclined towards passage of the petition into law. May calls upon his friends to send forth to the Hon. Dudley P. Phelps the "best articles that have appeared" upon the legal rights of fugitive slaves, and notes that he has sent Lysander Spooner's "Defense for Fugitives" and "Trial by Jury".
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Correspondence
  4. Fugitive Slaves
  5. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  6. History
  7. Law And Legislation
  8. Legal Status, Laws, Etc
  9. May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797 1871
  10. May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
  11. New York (State)
  12. Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
  13. Slaver
  14. Slavery
  15. Social Reformers
  16. Spooner, Lysander 1808 1887
  17. United States
  18. Wallcut, Robert Folger 1797 1884

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