Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, [Mass.], to Oliver Johnson, June 17, 1864
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Handwritten copy of letter; not William Lloyd Garrison's handwriting.Wendell Phillips objected to the National Anti-Slavery Standard's reporting of the Baltimore and Cleveland conventions. Phillips thought that J. C. Fremont was unjustly treated; Phillips wrote to William I. Bowditch, Treasurer of the American Anti-Slavery Society, ordering him to cease contributing to the support of the Standard. The Executive Committee will consider this matter. Garrison writes: "Indeed, I am satisfied that our Society is to be rent asunder, and, therefore, our associated action is soon to terminate. We are so much divided, that separation or dissolution threatens to be the only alternative; and I prefer the latter."Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.5, no.89.
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- Abolitionists
- American Anti Slavery Society
- Antislavery Movements
- Bowditch, William I. (William Ingersoll) 1819 1909
- Correspondence
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- Johnson, Oliver 1809 1889
- Lincoln, Abraham 1809 1865
- Phillips, Wendell 1811 1884
- Slaver
- United States