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Letter from Caroline Weston, Federal St[reet], [Boston], to Anne Warren Weston, June 13th, 1846

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Holograph.Caroline Weston describes a board meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, at which the National Anti-Slavery Standard was discussed. Caroline writes that "Garrison was violently in favour of initials," while James R. Lowell and Edmund Quincy were against them. Caroline remarks on William Lloyd Garrison's attitude toward S.H. Gay in regard to the management of the paper. Edmund Quincy was appointed to act for the executive committee for three months. Garrison's proposal to go to England met with lukewarm response. Finally a resolution was passed asking Garrison to represent the American Society abroad. Edmund Lowell "meant in the future to publish all his poetry first in the Standard." He told about Samuel Longfellow's sermon against the Mexican war and the young man from Mississippi who railed against him. The unnamed man from Mississippi said: "I should like to know what God & the Bible have to do with the Mexican War." Prior Foster tried to get $50 out of Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman. The board appointed Joseph C. Hathaway to the post of general agent for New York.
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Keywords

  1. American Anti Slavery Society
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Boston
  4. Correspondence
  5. Foster, Prior
  6. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  7. Hathaway, Joseph C
  8. History
  9. Longfellow, Samuel 1819 1892
  10. Lowell, James Russell 1819 1891
  11. Massachusetts
  12. Mexican War, 1846 1848
  13. National Anti Slavery Standard
  14. Quincy, Edmund 1808 1877
  15. Slaver
  16. United States
  17. Weston, Anne Warren 1812 1890
  18. Weston, Caroline 1808 1882
  19. Women
  20. Women Abolitionists

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