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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Elizur Wright Jr. writes to Amos A. Phelps regarding the " 'Witness' (No.3)" and the concerns regarding Mr. Noyes' case. He writes, "My authority for stating that Noyes lay 'dead drunk' in this city is Theodor D. Weld, who had the substantial facts in which the statement rests from his Brother Charles H. Weld...Noyes was in New York in a highly 'spirited' state of mind, and to prove that in such a state liquor it would have no effect upon him, he turned down rum, raw whiskey, and cayenne pepper, and ate large quantities of tobacco...and stood it through." He also writes about receiving a letter from Garrison concerning his plans. He writes, "At any rate his plan of resaving the slave by the destination of human laws is fatally conflictive with ours. Only one of them can lead to any good result...personal collision with him will be just so far disastrous for us, as it draws us from the great cause. Yet the time is evidently coming when we must say plainly, what we think of the truth...of his doctrines."

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