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Letter from Richard Plumer, Newburyport, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garrison, Oct[ober] 26th 1851

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Plumer, Richard

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Manuscript annotated on recto, with "149" in pencil above Plumer's salutation to Garrison.Richard Plumer inquires of William Lloyd Garrison his views concerning the morality of voting for government officials, and the reasons for why doing so would constitute a sin. Plumer inquires if the degree of sinfulness in voting would be equivalent if one were to vote for Charles Sumner as opposed to voting for Daniel Webster. Plumer inquires of the moral distinction in voting and in paying taxes, and inquires if it is not "better to speak by our votes that it is to keep silence". Plumer proposes an anti-slavery meeting to be held in Newburyport, and invites Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Daniel Foster, and Stephen S. Foster to attend.
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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. Abstention
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Christian Moral Exhortation
  5. Christianity
  6. Correspondence
  7. Foster, Daniel 1816 1864
  8. Foster, Stephen S. (Stephen Symonds) 1809 1881
  9. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  10. History
  11. Meetings
  12. Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
  13. Plumer, Richard
  14. Religious Aspects
  15. Slaver
  16. Social Reformers
  17. Sumner, Charles 1811 1874
  18. United States
  19. Voting
  20. Webster, Daniel 1782 1852

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