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    "description": "J.J. Locke writes to Samuel May sending this letter along with another letter he wrote May on October 9, after discovering the earlier letter \"did not leave here as intended.\" He says he will not go to Cummington until after the Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, which he hopes to attend but he \"may be detained at home,\" taking care of is ill wife. Locke then discusses the meeting at Athol, stating he was \"glad to see that [it] ... came off so finely.\" He says he was given an account of the meeting by Henry Wadsworth Carter, who also \"spoke of the discrimination of Rev. [Samuel Fulton] Clark[e] in which he was desirous that you should occupy his desk but would exclude the 'sainted martyr' Foster!\" Locke criticizes the Church's hostility to Foster and other antislavery speakers, arguing \"When will it be understood by the wisdom of the pulpit that the measure of a mans true piety, devotion, religion, is in the humane acts he performs, & in nothing else?\"",
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