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Letter to] Hon[orable] J. M. Forbes: Dear Sir [manuscript

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Holograph, signedWilliam Lloyd Garrison does not know what President Abraham Lincoln thinks of him, "having heard no word of commendation from his lips, and received none from his pen." Garrison doubts that he has influence over the President. Nevertheless, Garrison is writing a letter to President Lincoln endorsing John Murray Forbes's high opinion of Governor John A. Andrew's qualifications for a cabinet post. Garrison regards the anti-slavery amendment to the Constitution as indispensableMerrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818 1867
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Forbes, John Murray, 1813 1898
  5. Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879
  6. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809 1865
  7. Slaver
  8. United States

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