Letter from Seward Mitchell, Cornville, [Me.], to William Lloyd Garrison, [March 19 1855]

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Title:
Letter from Seward Mitchell, Cornville, [Me.], to William Lloyd Garrison, [March 19 1855]
Description:
Seward Mitchell laments to William Lloyd Garrison his impression that the abolitionist cause is making "but little or no advance" against slavery. Mitchell charges the American government with the responsibility (moral and otherwise) for the creation, implementation, and continuation of slavery, and labels it a "slaveholding government", asserting that John Quincy Adams has "spoken the truth in relation to it". Mitchell questions Stephen Foster's formation of a new political party, and asserts that in the "last five thousand years" there has not been one political faction which has proved to be a "blessing to mankind". Mitchell declares that the American government must be "destroyed as the great enemy of God and man". Mitchell lables political action to be "all wrong", and states his hopes that this theme will be taken up at the Worcester meeting of the Non-Resistance Society.
Author:
Mitchell, Seward
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[March 19, 1855]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
United States.
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--Religious aspects--Christianity--United States--History--19th century
Christian anarchism--United States--History--19th century
Nonviolence--United States--History--19th century
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States
Christianity
Christian anarchism
Christian moral exhortation
Nonviolence--Religious aspects--Christianity
Nonviolence
New England Non-Resistance Society
Mitchell, Seward
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Giddings, Joshua R. (Joshua Reed), 1795-1864
Foster, Stephen S. (Stephen Symonds), 1809-1881
Extent:
1 leaf (3 p.) ; 19.3 x 24.5 cm.
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Place of origin:
Cornville, [Me.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
5071008
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.25, p.20
Barcode:
39999066762046