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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.On verso the letter is addressed to "Mr. Wm. Lloyd Garrison. 25 Cornhill. Boston. Mass."George Bourne writes to William Lloyd Garrison telling him he will soon send him a letter sharing his opinions on Garrison's new society, the New England Non-Resistant Society, saying he "love[s] to fight without a foe." Bourne states that he is aware the Society has "some very pugnacious creatures, male and female ... but I shall move at once that they be struck from the roll, if they venture to impugn any of my thrusts." He "anticipate[s] no peace from your Non-Resistance oppugnation!" and warns it will cause "mischief to the Anti-Slavery cause." Bourne argues that non-resistant ideas will split abolitionists and "will diminish your own energies and weaken your own influence." He wishes Garrison will not be "the standard bearer of the Non-Resistance Society," and remarks that while once he "could have said Amen to every syllable" in the Liberator, he now regularly finds many points in the paper that repel him or he considers irrelevant. "I would rather have seen a blank spot, than many paragraphs which I have read," Bourne says. He also sends Garrison a note for Isaac Knapp.

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