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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.George Bradburn writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to a reply to her letter which accuses him of bad faith toward the American and Massachusetts anti-slavery societies in his conduct "in relation to the Liberty Party." If the Massachusetts Board, to whom alone he holds himself responsible, had written him such a letter, he would have "denounced the Board as a band of mean-spirited knaves." He explains that with one exception-a sharp rebuke to Alvan Stewart for his letter to the Liberty Press-his course, in respect to the Liberty Party, has been the same throughout. He has nothing to say either for or against it, he does not consider it his duty to damn the character of its members, or to denouce the party. As she deems his course wrong and feels himself responsible, he suggests three ways by which she can relieve herself of the responsiblity. To him, "it will be a matter of the most perfect indifference" which way she chooses. He is not surprised that she has not written to James N. Buffum as she has to him, is "surprised only that you should have addressed to either of us such an impertinent, impudent, insolent letter." On the third page, George Bradburn writes another letter to Maria Weston Chapman, dated September 6, 1843, in Oakland [Ohio], in regards to having received a second letter from her, in which she recalled her first one, he was inclined not to send his reply of...

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