Letter from Michael H. Barton, Jerusalem, [New York], to William Lloyd Garrison, 1838 [June] 20th
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Michael H. Barton writes to William Lloyd Garrison stating that while he has not attached his own "name to the Anti-Slavery records; yet in the full sense of the word I am an Abolitionist ..." He tells Garrison that his work in the antislavery movement is preparing "the way for the Gosple [sic] Cov[enant] of Redemption to rool [sic] through the nations of the earth." Barton also says that he refuses to use "the produce of slavery." He then tells Garrison that he is sorry to see him "meddle with anything" outside the antislavery cause, warning it has "a tendency to blunt the keen edge of the weapons that you hold in your hands." Barton explains that he is referring specifically to Garrison's comments on "the Sabbath and civil government." He shares his thoughts about starting a paper in New York or Philadelphia, to be called "the Morning Sun'; Bound to no Sect, to no one party tied, To truth and right wherever allied." In the postscript, Barton asks Garrison to send the Liberator to Rachel Malen in Jerusalem, N.Y., identifying her as "the woman that W[illia]m Turpin put up with when here, - and to whom he left $13000."