Letter from John Greenleaf Whittier, Amesbury, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1860 [January] 15th

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Title:
Letter from John Greenleaf Whittier, Amesbury, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1860 [January] 15th
Description:
John Greenleaf Whittier writes to William Lloyd Garrison notifying him that in reprinting his article, "Brown of Osawatomie," he has "unintentionally, I am sure, done me injustice." Whittier says that the article the Liberator quoted from contained "war-like allusions" and left out "distinct & empathetic declarations of the entirely peaceful character of the anti-slavery enterprise, & equally empathic condemnations of war & violence in its behalf." He includes passages missing from the Liberator's version of his poems to illustrate his point but concedes that "No one who knows me or who has read my writings can be doubtful for a moment as to my position!" He then recalls the pledge he made "at Philadelphia twenty six years ago," the Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and argues that the course against slavery agreed to then is just as "right & proper now."
Author:
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[January 15, 1860]
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--United States--History--19th century
Nonviolence--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Nonviolence
Social reformers--United States
American Anti-Slavery Society
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 25 cm.
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Place of origin:
Amesbury, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
The article Whittier is describing was published in the Liberator of January 13, 1860 (Vol. XXX, No. 2).
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5119910
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.30, p.7
Barcode:
39999085430104