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Letter from Henry Clarke Wright, St. Mary's Lake, [Battle Creek, Michigan], to William Lloyd Garrison, [18]61 Sept[ember] 16

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.In this letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Clarke Wright sends a number of materials for inclusion in the Liberator, including a letter from Henry Willis, a letter Wright had published in the Battle Creek Journal, and a notice for the Water Cure located there. He states "the call is loud in the West for a huge Memorial to president [Lincoln] to free the slaves of all Rebel States & Individuals" and he believes that John C. Fremont "will be the next president if he is true & firm to the course he has adopted." Wright also mentions a convention will be held in St. Mary's in October, promising "we shall have a great time."
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. Antislavery Movements
  3. Civil War
  4. Civil War, 1861 1865
  5. Correspondence
  6. Emancipation
  7. Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
  8. History
  9. Slaver
  10. Slaves
  11. Social Reformers
  12. United States
  13. Wright, Henry Clarke 1797 1870

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