Letter from Oliver Johnson, Anti-Slavery Office, New York, to Maria Weston Chapman, 4 May 1865

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Place of origin:
Anti-Slavery Office, New York
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
Oliver Johnson encloses Mr. [Henry Ward] Beecher's sermon on the death of Lincoln. Oliver Johnson writes: "I think, if our friends manage wisely, that we shall get a vote to dissolve; but I may be mistaken. W.P. [Wendell Phillips] will no doubt exert himself to the utmost" [to continue the American Anti-Slavery Society]. Oliver Johnson tells an anecdote, presenting an analogy to the folly of some abolitionists. He concludes that if "[Wendell] Phillips, P.P. [Parker Pillsbury] and they F.s [Fosters] choose to wear the 'old clothes' of the American A.S. Society after they are thrown aside, let them."
Identifier:
2807835
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.32, p.37
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