Letter from Elizur Wright, New York, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1837 Oct[ober] 20

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Title:
Letter from Elizur Wright, New York, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1837 Oct[ober] 20
Description:
Elizur Wright Jr. writes to Amos A. Phelps regarding William Lloyd Garrison and the "Appeal." He writes, "if we had only condemned the Appeal, we should have placed ourselves in the predicament in which you seem to stand, and in which I fear you will be somewhat embarrassed--for, when you protest against Garrison, will he not turn upon you and ask, Why thus did you fight by my side through half the battle without saying ought against me? We had too many inklings and presentiments of the future, and some of them from Garrison himself too, to permit us to involve the high interests left in our care in such a squabble." He further adds that, "if you think our condemnations of the Appeal would have satisfied him and kept him from raising heaven & earth into a storm against the clergy--as clergy. No, he would have rammed our shot into his cannon the first thing. His perfectionism had got the mastery of his soul." Wright continues to denounce Garrison and his use of the Liberator which "has been saved from death time and again by abolition money, to propagate sentiments which the abolitionists who gave the money abhor-sentiments which are truly sectarianism of the worst sort."
Author:
Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885
Addressee:
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Date:
October 20, 1837
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--Societies, etc--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--Public opinion--United States--19th century
Antislavery movements--Newspapers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Publishing--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Societies
Abolitionists--United States
Public opinion
Publishers and publishing
American Anti-Slavery Society. Executive Committee
Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus), 1805-1847
Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 cm.
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Place of origin:
New York
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript postmarked in purple ink "Phelps MSS."
Identifier:
5111121
Call #:
MS A.21 v.7, p.65
Barcode:
39999085427696