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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) manuscript contains an engraving of a slave kneeling and praying in the middle of the first page which is written over in blue ink and the inscriptions are crossed out.William Goodell writes to Amos A. Phelps in regards to warning him about the letter he is about to send to Henry B. Stanton. He writes, "I have no objection that you should see the contents, confident as I am that you will cultivate honest brotherly frankness and good nature & help each other and the good cause." William Goodell writes a second letter below the letter to Phelps in regards to the "tone of the warfare of the Liberator." He mentions that Phelps has been put in a "difficult and trying situation." He discusses the anti-slavery cause in Massachusetts. He compares the state of fervor in the states with the abolitionist cause to the popularism of Napoleon Bonaparte in France, stating, "And when abolitionists have found any one in their ranks whom they are willing to recognize as who will consent to be regarded as their Napoleon-the very foundation principles of their abolitionism has evidently been touched with the hand of decay." He writes that "this is the fatal incense that has already bewildered Garrison."

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