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Letter to] Dear Friend [manuscript

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Holograph, signedTitle devised by catalogerManuscript is dated "8th mo : 21st 1835"Manuscript is addressed to "Wm. Lloyd Garrison, Boston, Massachusetts"Edwin P. Atlee addresses William Lloyd Garrison concerning the "use of violent and unchristian language" appearing in the last edition of the Liberator, and states his hope that Garrison will "change for the better, and cease to wound the best feelings of [Garrison's] friends". Atlee asserts that in spite of his friendship for Garrison and his adherence to the abolitionist cause, he is "not bound to subscribe to any and every thing which may proceed from those" involved in the struggle. Atlee states that he was "wounded" by the opposition displayed towards his resolution that they refrain from comment on the "Colonization Meeting in N.Y.", only to discover that at a subsequent meeting held in his absence, a resolution passed which declared "a war of extermination" against the Colonization initiative
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  1. Abolitionists
  2. African Americans
  3. Antislavery Movements
  4. Atlee, Edwin P. (Edwin Pitt), 1799 1836
  5. Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805 1879
  6. Liberator (Boston, Mass. : 1831)
  7. Slaver

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