Letter from Oliver Johnson, Anti-Slavery Office, New York, to Maria Weston Chapman, 4 May 1865
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Holograph, signed.Oliver Johnson encloses Mr. [Henry Ward] Beecher's sermon on the death of Lincoln. Oliver Johnson writes: "I think, if our friends manage wisely, that we shall get a vote to dissolve; but I may be mistaken. W.P. [Wendell Phillips] will no doubt exert himself to the utmost" [to continue the American Anti-Slavery Society]. Oliver Johnson tells an anecdote, presenting an analogy to the folly of some abolitionists. He concludes that if "[Wendell] Phillips, P.P. [Parker Pillsbury] and they F.s [Fosters] choose to wear the 'old clothes' of the American A.S. Society after they are thrown aside, let them."
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- American Anti Slavery Society
- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Correspondence
- Foster, Stephen S. (Stephen Symonds) 1809 1881
- History
- Johnson, Oliver 1809 1889
- Massachusetts
- Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
- Pillsbury, Parker 1809 1898
- Slaver
- United States
- Women
- Women Abolitionists