Resolution of the National Freedmen's Aid Union of Great Britain and Ireland
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Joseph Cooper, writing on the behalf of the National Freedmen's Aid Union of Great Britain and Ireland, pens a resolution welcoming William Lloyd Garrison as their guest, and honoring his "courageous and life-long labours for the abolition of Negro Slavery in the United States of America". The resolution further congratulates Garrison and his compatriots for their victory earned in the face of "so many years" of "fierce opposition", and greet Garrison as a representative of the American Freedmen's Union Commission. The resolution closes by commending the "establishment of Schools for the Freedmen" in the United States.