Letter from Henry Wilson, Washington, [D.C.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Dec[ember] 17, 1874
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript composed upon stationary bearing the typeset letterhead of the "Vice-President's Chamber".Vice President Henry Wilson addresses William Lloyd Garrison expressing his sadness by the state of the nation, citing the rise of "White League men in the South" and the "coldness in the North", and states that he fears a "Counter-Revolution". Wilson exhorts their "Anti-Slavery veterans" to "speak out" against the "reactionary movements" threatening the progress so hard-won by the efforts of many.
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- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- Correspondence
- Freedmen
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
- National Anti Slavery Standard
- Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877)
- Slaver
- Social Reformers
- Southern States
- Terrorism
- United States
- White League (La.)
- Wilson, Henry 1812 1875