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- GLC#
- GLC02222
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 24 July 1861
- Author/Creator
- Jay, John, 1817-1894
- Title
- to unknown
- Place Written
- Katonah, New York.
- Pagination
- 8 p. : Height: 18.2 cm, Width: 11.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Jay, prominent abolitionist and grandson of the Revolutionary War patriot of the same name, argues "We have an agency at work for the abolition of slavery in the pending war more powerful than all the Conventions we could assemble. Every battle fought will teach our soldiers & the nation at large that slavery is the great cause of the war, that it is slavery which has brutalized & barbarized the South & that slavery must be abolished as our army advances as a military necessity." In a post script, notes that he is transmitting one of his recent addresses (not included). Torn on page three.
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