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Letter from Jonathan Ward, Brentwood, [New Hampshire], to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1837 September 6

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript composed in black ink on white paper. Purple postmarked stamp that says "Phelps MSS." Above first line, the number "48" is written in pencil.Jonathan Ward writes to Amos A. Phelps regarding his disapproval of William Lloyd Garrison's course in editing the "Liberator." He writes, "as the Liberator is an exclusively A. Slavery paper, and is supported, I suppose...by abolitionists, most of whom differ from him on the Sabbath, government, etc., he had no right to intrude them upon the supporters of his paper, thus going...out of his way, as the editor of an abolition paper. Sad I was surprised that other editors would justify, or excuse, such a course." He goes on to specify which parts of the paper he disapproves, in particular, of Garrison's criticism of the religious sects of the movement.
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