Letter from James F. Otis, Portland, [Maine], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1834 February 8

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Title:
Letter from James F. Otis, Portland, [Maine], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1834 February 8
Description:
James Frederick Otis writes to William Lloyd Garrison about the "news from Washington" saying it will cause "the heart of the Christian [to] rejoice and give grateful thanks, with deeper emotion and lofier joy than ever." Otis cites articles in the Emancipator, the New York Evangelist, and the Liberator (of February 8, 1834, Vol. IV, no. 6) of reports from the "'Seventeenth Anniversary of the American Colonization Society' as a proud day for the cause of Emancipation." He then summarizes a letter he wrote to William Ladd about the relationship of antislavery societies and Ladd's Peace Society to the American Colonization Society. Otis also praises his "friend Greenleaf, over the signature of 'C.F.'" for his "authorship of 'Memorials of a Slave,'" [first appearing in the Liberator of February 8, 1834] calling him "a good coadjutor, & if kept right, will keep right." He tells Garrison of his plans to lecture in Maine and declares that the state "is less deeply committed upon either side of the Great Question than any other in the Union, and by God's keep, she may be rightly influenced yet."
Author:
Otis, James F., -1867
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
February 8, 1834
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
American Colonization Society
Otis, James F., -1867
Ladd, William, 1778-1841
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 24 cm.
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Place of origin:
Portland, [Maine]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Identifier:
5707822
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.4, p.14
Barcode:
39999086046511