Letter from Samuel May, Jr., Leicester, [Mass.], to William Lloyd Garrison, March 10 / [18]79
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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Samuel May, Jr. forwards to William Lloyd Garrison an edition of the newspaper from Seneca Falls in which appears a letter from Garrison to Richard P. Hunt dated May 1, 1840. May thanks Garrison for his delivery of several copies of the Tribune containing Garrison's editorials on the "Anti-Chinese doings", and calls the recent actions of California vis-à-vis the Chineses immigrants "very bad and disgraceful". May asserts his expectation of "all manner of abominable things from the new Congress". May inquires if there is "no probability that a public meeting" would be held that spring in honor of the late George Thompson.
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- Abolitionists
- Antislavery Movements
- California
- Chinese Americans
- Civil Rights
- Correspondence
- Crime
- Crimes Against
- Democratic Party (U.S.)
- England
- Garrison, William Lloyd 1805 1879
- History
- May, Samuel, Jr. 1810 1899
- Slaver
- Social Reformers
- Thompson, George 1804 1878
- United States