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Letter to] My dear brother Phelps [manuscript

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Holograph, signedTitle devised by catalogerOn verso, the delivery address is "Rev. A. A. Phelps, Boston, Massachusetts." It was postmarked on Dec. 31 in Peterboro, N.YIt is stamped, "PHELPS MSS."In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Gerrit Smith explains that what he meant by a ́new organizatioń was an abolitionist society with ́a constitution of the usual form, with the simple addition of a provision, that the members shall not vote for pro-slavery candidates.́ He says that such a new organization would not be needed where the members of a local society are all in favor of inserting such a provision in the constitution. He says he is not in favor of Phelpśs suggestion of a new organization, and is against the idea of a new weekly antislavery paper as such a paper will only compete with the Liberator
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