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Holograph, signed.
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cv43rn19c
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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Oliver Johnson, Dec. 6, 1861
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cv43rn19c
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title
Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Oliver Johnson, Dec. 6, 1861
description
Holograph, signed.
date
["December 6, 1861"]
year
1861
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No known copyright restrictions.
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no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
3134896
creators
Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Anti-Slavery Collection
subjects
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Wightman, Joseph M. (Joseph Milner), 1812-1885
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
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Correspondence
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1 leaf (4 p.) ; 8 x 5 1/8 in.
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notes
Holograph, signed.
William Lloyd Garrison advises sending a hundred copies of the National Anti-Slavery Standard to members of Congress. Garrison comments on Abraham Lincoln: "What a wishy-washy message from the President! It is more and more evident that he is a man of very small calibre, and had better be at his old business of splitting rails than at the head of a government like ours, especially in such a crisis. He has evidently not a drop of anti-slavery blood in his veins; and he seems incapable of uttering a humane or generous sentiment respecting the enslaved millions in our land." Garrison points out the newspapers that are Lincoln's admirers. He shudders at the possibility of the war ending without the extinction of slavery. All who denounce and oppose emancipation must be branded as accessories to Southern treason. Garrison hopes that Mayor J. M. Wightman of Boston will be ejected, as was Mayor Wood of New York. Last week, Garrison was confined to the house with an inflammation of the eye. His wife was ill at the same time. Garrison comments on Henry Ward Beecher's "practically pro-slavery sentiments."
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Boston, [Mass.]
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cv43rn19c
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