Letter from Henry Clarke Wright, Oak Hill, [Gloucester,] Cape Ann, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]64 May 25

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Title:
Letter from Henry Clarke Wright, Oak Hill, [Gloucester,] Cape Ann, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]64 May 25
Description:
In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Clarke Wright tells of his return to his home in Gloucester, Massachusetts, remarking, "What blood & carnage have been witnessed the past two weeks!" Wright argues that "the priests & politicians, the Churches & the Parties of the North" refused to listen to the abolitionists for decades and now the country is paying the price. "Slavery is the War & the War is Slavery," Wright declares. He quotes President Lincoln in justifying his view that the war is divine punishment for slavery and states that "the Negro is the great test, the Arbiter, the God-appointed Savior of the Nation." Before ending the letter, he tells Garrison he will be in Boston the next day and asks him to include a notice in the Liberator.
Author:
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[May 25, 1864]
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
Slavery and the church--United States
Social reformers--United States
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 20 cm.
Permalink:
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Place of origin:
Oak Hill, [Gloucester,] Cape Ann, [Massachusetts]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5120760
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.33, p.56B
Barcode:
39999085430849