Letter from Lucretia Mott, Philad[elphi]a, [Penn.], to Maria Weston Chapman and Miss Weston, 7 mo[nth] 23rd [day] 1846
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Holograph, signed.Lucretia Mott asks Maria Weston Chapman to invite Caroline Weston and her sisters to come to the annual meeting at Kennett and to stay at Mott's house. Edmund Quincy is also invited to stay there. Lucretia Mott remarks on the prospects of William Garrison's influence in England. The disposition to hear and receive Frederick Douglass at the British & Foreign Anti-Slavery Society's meeting "seemed a little evidence of repentance at their past mis-doings." Lucretia Mott would have preferred that the Standard be less severe in its treatment of this society. Lucretia Mott desires gentle dealings "even with poor C[assius] M. Clay---so lamentably fallen & degraded." She remembers his anti-pacifistic utterances. Clay's paper reaches many in the south, where "the anti-slavery there is in the True American might do good, as they would see it no where else," therefore Lucretia Mott would have the paper continue to circulate. On the other hand, "those who descend from the higher position which we occupy, & unite with these "worlds' people,' need to be 'withstood to the face, because they are to be blamed'--- ..." Lucretia Mott asks why Wendell Phillips cannot come.
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- Antislavery Movements
- Boston
- British And Foreign Anti Slavery Society
- Chapman, Maria Weston 1806 1885
- Clay, Cassius Marcellus 1810 1903
- Correspondence
- Douglass, Frederick 1818 1895
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Massachusetts
- Mott, Lucretia 1793 1880
- National Anti Slavery Standard
- Slaver
- True American
- United States
- Weston, Caroline 1808 1882
- Weston, Miss
- Women
- Women Abolitionists