Letter from Samuel May, Jr., Leicester, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garrison, April 28 / [18]79

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Title:
Letter from Samuel May, Jr., Leicester, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garrison, April 28 / [18]79
Description:
Samuel May, Jr. offers his gratitude for Garrison's "renewed & hearty" invitation to join their "travelling party" for a proposed summer journey to England. May states that he would be delighted to accompany Garrison and visit their English friends, but declares that he must abstain, stating that since the death of his father he has resolved to not travel far from home while his aged mother still lived. May adds that the "financial disaster" which has afflicted the "business firm of May and Co" prevents him from undertaking such a voyage, as his brother stands on the brink of ruin. May informs Garrison that he has seen his letter to W. G. Eliot, and labels as "preposterous & deceptive" the assertion found in the Boston Daily Advertiser that Eliot "ranked in former times with the antislavery men", declaring that Eliot possesed an "abundance of contempt" for the abolitionists. May expresses his disagreement with John Albion Andrew's proposal for the governing of the South during Reconstruction, and his accord with Sumner's proposal to govern the former Confederate states as Territories. May asserts that the readmission of the former Confederate states to the Union with "full political rights" was "the great mistake", and harshly rebukes the governing policy of the Republican party. May states his belief that Hayes ought to be supported by the abolitionists.
Author:
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Addressee:
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Date:
[April 28, 1879]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Abolitionists--United States--19th century--Correspondence
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century
Freedmen--United States--History--19th century
African Americans--Violence against--History--19th century
Equality before the law--United States--History--19th century
Terrorism--Southern States--History--1865-1877
Southern States--Race relations--History--1865-1877
Antislavery movements--United States
Abolitionists--United States--History--19th century
Social reformers--United States
Freed persons--United States
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African Americans--Civil rights--History--19th century
African Americans
Violence
Equality before the law--United States
Terrorism--United States
Southern States--Race relations--History--19th century
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Chamberlain, Daniel Henry, 1835-1907
Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867
Eliot, William Greenleaf, 1811-1887
Places:
Southern United States (area)
Extent:
1 leaf (12 p.) ; 13.5 x 21.4 cm.
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Place of origin:
Leicester, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Title devised by cataloger.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
4664896
Call #:
MS A.1.2 v.39, p.30A
Barcode:
39999063806143