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Letter from Rodney French, New Bedford, [Massachusetts], to Maria Weston Chapman, 1839 June 17

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Holograph, signed.Title devised by cataloger.Rodney French writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to receiving letters from Alanson St. Clair on anti-slavery resolutions passed in Worcester and quoting St. Clair's letter, he states that the new newspaper, "Massachusetts Abolitionist" was not "designed to be in opposition to the Liberator, but a co-worker with it." He states that at the Fall River meeting, St. Clair mentioned that a suggestion was made to have his town's society meet prior to the meeting and appoint a large delegation instructing them to vote in person of these resolutions and that "this was Garrison's own measure." Mr. S. Hopkins Emery and Gilbert H. Durfee endorse all that St. Clair said. They received a vote in their favor by a majority of three. The Bristol County anti-slavery society's board passed "those obnoxious resolutions which the society at its late meeting disapproved." He believes St. Clair formed a society in Attleborough, which he made an auxiliary to the American society. In Fair Haven, St. Clair said he was not an agent of the American society but an agent of the Bristol county society. After lecturing for three days, he took up a collection and "did not get over four dollars."
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