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Letter to] Dear Johnson [manuscript

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Holograph, signedWilliam Lloyd Garrison advises Oliver Johnson not to print in this week's National Anti-Slavery Standard the speech Wendell Phillips gave in Washington, as reported by the Tribune. He doesn't know the veracity of the Tribune's report and whether revisions were made to the speech. Garrison comments about President Lincoln: "I am afraid the President's message will prove 'a decoy duck' or 'a red herring,' so as to postpone that decisive action by Congress which we are so desirous of seeing. ..."
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879
  4. Johnson, Oliver, 1809 1889
  5. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809 1865
  6. New York Tribune
  7. Phillips, Wendell, 1811 1884
  8. Slaver

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