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Letter from Gerrit Smith, Peterboro, [New York], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1866 August 5

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white lined paper with an embossed logo of an eagle above a shield in the head- spine corner of each page. Along the spine edge of the first page, above the first line of the letter, the number "60" is written in pencil. The second page of the letter is written vertically, facing the fore edge of the page.Gerrit Smith writes to William Lloyd Garrison telling him that he read in the Anti-Slavery Standard about Garrison's arm injury and that he is "recovering from a similar accident." Smith says he sympathizes with Garrison "for the sake of your country. Never, more than now, did she need your pen & voice - for never has she been in greater pain than she now is." He then discusses the New Orleans Race Riot of July 1866, saying "I think the New Orleans murder would have opened the eyes of Congress to its folly". Before ending the letter, Smith tells Garrison, "I hope you see light ahead. I do not."
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. African Americans
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Correspondence
  5. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  6. History
  7. New Orleans Race Riot, New Orleans, La., 1866
  8. Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877)
  9. Slaver
  10. Smith, Gerrit 1797 1874
  11. Social Reformers
  12. United States
  13. Violence
  14. Violence Against

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