Letter from Henry Clarke Wright, Oakland, Penn[sylvania], to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]62 Dec[ember] 22

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Title:
Letter from Henry Clarke Wright, Oakland, Penn[sylvania], to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]62 Dec[ember] 22
Description:
Henry C. Wright writes to WIlliam Lloyd Garrison after receiving the Liberator and advises Garrison that "Liberty is worth dying for but not worth killing for." Wright then tells him that "the colored people are to have a celebration in Boston" and he wishes to attend, noting "the great Blessing of 1863 is to come". He casts the Civil War as divine punishment for slavery and warns that "God is stronger than Lincoln or the Democratic or Reprublican party - stronger than millions of armed battalions" and he asserts that God wants African-Americans to stay in the United States. Wright states that while "it is hard to see my fellow beings slaughtered & mutilated - [it is] but harder to see them dehumanized & turned into beasts & chattels."
Author:
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[December 22, 1862]
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
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Christianity
Social reformers--United States
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 21 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/2v23xm33b
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Oakland, Penn[sylvania]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white, lined paper. Above the salutation, the number "141" is written in pencil.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5076196
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.31, p.166A
Barcode:
39999085440970