Letter from Henry Clarke Wright, Boston, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]61 March 18

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Title:
Letter from Henry Clarke Wright, Boston, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]61 March 18
Description:
Henry Clarke Wright writes to William Lloyd Garrison, quoting a passage about the abandonment of Fort Sumter from the latest issue of the New York Tribune, saying "it will cheer the heart of every friend of freedom & of humanity." Wright celebrates the article discussing the Cabinet's belief in the splitting of the Union as proof that the American people understand "that Liberty & Slavery cannot coexist & enjoy equal rights & immunities under the same government." Wright then quotes from the "Traveller of Saturday the 16th", an article posing the choice between a reconstruction of the Union "on the basis of an unconditional surrender to the slavocracy" or "a peacefable, formal dissolution of the Union" through a National Convention. Wright then hopes the "Republican party & Administration [will] inauguate & actualize a peaceable & bloodless Dissolution of the kidnapping, slave-hunting & slave-trading Union."
Author:
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[March 18, 1861]
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
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Social reformers--United States
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
New-York tribune (New York, N.Y. : 1841)
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 20 cm.
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Place of origin:
Boston, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5120216
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.31, p.30B
Barcode:
39999085430146