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Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Brooklyn, [Conn.], to Henry Egbert Benson and Isaac Knapp, Aug. 29, 1835

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Holograph, signed.William Lloyd Garrison says that all the Faneuil Hall speeches were bad, but [Peleg] Sprague's speech was diabolical. Letters written to Sprague and [Harrison Gray] Otis will be published in the Liberator. Garrison will review all the speeches. Garrison wishes that [George] Thompson would answer Sprague's attack. Garrison writes: "What a tremendous fire in Charlestown! I should think it would divert public conversation from us, for a time at least."Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.1, no.202.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Benson, Henry Egbert 1814 1837
  4. Charlestown (Boston, Mass.)
  5. Correspondence
  6. Fire Prevention
  7. Fires
  8. Fires And Fire Prevention
  9. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  10. History
  11. Knapp, Isaac 1804 1843
  12. Otis, Harrison Gray 1765 1848
  13. Slaver
  14. Sprague, Peleg 1793 1880
  15. Thompson, George 1804 1878
  16. United States

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