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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Samuel Joseph May, March 21, 1856

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Holograph, signed.William Lloyd Garrison rejoices in Samuel Joseph May's convalescence. Garrison tells of his own mishaps since meeting May at the Syracuse depot: he lectured in Rochester on the worst night of inclement weather and became ill with inflamed lungs. Garrison suggests beginning the future lecture course in the autumn, ending before January. Garrison is convinced that Kansas will be a slave state. President Pierce is ready to do what the slave power demands. Gerrit Smith, Ward Beecher, and Theodore Parker trust more in rifles than in peaceful methods. This is time for "radical peace men to renew their testimonies." Garrison denounces the machinations of Julia Griffiths and the unscrupulousness of Frederick Douglass. Garrison thinks it is ludicrous that Lewis Tappan, Frederick Douglass, McCune Smith, Goodell, and Gerrit Smith have called a convention for the purpose of nominating presidential candidates. The tone of the Republican Party is becoming more "feeble and indefinite."Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.4, no.138.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Beecher, Henry Ward 1813 1887
  4. Correspondence
  5. Douglass, Frederick 1818 1895
  6. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  7. Griffiths, Julia 1895
  8. History
  9. Kansas
  10. May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph) 1797 1871
  11. Parker, Theodore 1810 1860
  12. Pierce, Franklin 1804 1869
  13. Slaver
  14. Smith, Gerrit 1797 1874
  15. Smith, James Mc Cune 1813 1865
  16. Tappan, Lewis 1788 1873
  17. United States

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