Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Anne Greene Chapman Dicey, Sunday, July 6, [1862]

Item Information

Title:
Letter from Maria Weston Chapman, Weymouth, [Mass.], to Anne Greene Chapman Dicey, Sunday, July 6, [1862]
Addressee:
Dicey, Anne Greene Chapman, d. 1879
Author:
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Date:
[July 6, 1862]
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Great Britain--History--19th century
Dicey, Anne Greene Chapman, d. 1879
Follen, Charles, 1796-1840
Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
6 leaves (20 p.) ; 8 x 4 7/8 in. and 8 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qz20t3068
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Place of origin:
Weymouth, [Mass.]
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed with initials.
In this letter, Maria Weston Chapman discusses the news "that the army has met with disaster--owing to want of men. Overpowered by numbers, seems to be the cry..." General Stonewall Jackson was reported killed. Chapman mentions certain princes who "were ubiquitous on board every ship in the fleet at the same time. They rallied & led the men, fighting like American citizens & French princes under one." Chapman considers him best who battles for the world's advance. Chapman said: "I am sorry to see ignorance & prejudice on all sides prevailing." A set of people are afraid of war with France and England. The ideological warfare is slow, because people are at war in their own minds. Chapman said: "They who have renounced slavery in their own hearts, have yet a pride in not acknowledging that this is a revolution,--& cry 'the Union & Constitution as they were in 1860.'--This makes the U.S. appear scarcely better to the world at large than the Rebels." Chapman daily observes political selfishness at work. She said: "All this mingling of reasoning & feeling sprung up in my mind on hearing a pro-slavery patriot rail against Europe." To those who imagine her identified in feeling with the English nobility, Maria W. Chapman replies: "It is no part of my mission to defend Duchesses." She discourses on the wrong attitude of American patriots twoard the Lancashire cotton workers. Chapman comments that "Garrison is shining at this hour in contrast with Pillsbury & Co." Chapman received a note from C[harles] Follen "saying he was off like a shot for Port Royal." She refers to General [David] Hunter's proclamation declaring the slaves of rebel states as free. Chapman wrote: "Our defeat before Richmond comes from not having drilled the blacks a year ago." She mentions the death of Mrs. Howe. James Lowell, son of Charles, was killed last week in battle.
Includes accompanying envelope.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Identifier:
3133093
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.31, p.9
Barcode:
39999066788892
mq8390436