Letter from Caroline Weston, Worcester, [Mass.], to Deborah Weston, [1837?]
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Holograph, signed.Caroline Weston informs Deborah Weston that she will write at length when she gets to Boston. Presently, she will write about only a few items [concerning the anti-slavery convention]. She assumes that D. knows how the cause stood in Boston, and "how rampant was clerical abolitionism--how [James G.] Birney was out in the Philanthropist against Garrison, his eyes evidently full of Channing's dust." Caroline refers to various newspapers and her opinion of them: the Evangelist is denouncing, the Emancipator is dumb, the Coloured American is refusing to publish the doings of the colored people in Boston. [John] Gulliver, [Charles] Fitch, [Joseph H.] Towne went up from Boston "to get the ground," but the Lynn folks got a head start. She tells of her journey and her breakfast companions. They joined the [Samuel] Philbricks and [John Greenleaf] Whittier, who "is somewhat bedeviled with the Presbyterian demon of New York." She tells how [Amos Augustus] Phelps, "ploughing in the neighborhood," wrote Whittier to approach a circle of friends to meet him (Phelps) at Amesbury. Which Whittier did, but "dodged himself and went to Haverill." Phelps, however, pursued him and brought him back. The train was loaded with abolitionists. At the depot was a long line of anxious faces "looking to see who had come with inexpressible earnestness." [James Trask] Woodbury stayed away; and "M.[aria] says nothing can equal his spite." The holding of the county convention at the same time cramps them for room, but the day was successful. Caroline commented:...
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- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Correspondence
- Fitch, Charles 1805 1844
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Massachusetts
- Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus) 1805 1847
- Slaver
- Towne, Joseph H. (Joseph Hardy) 1805 1897
- United States
- Weston, Caroline 1808 1882
- Weston, Deborah B. 1814
- Whittier, John Greenleaf 1807 1892
- Women
- Women Abolitionists