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- GLC#
- GLC04717.29-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 27 August 1859
- Author/Creator
- Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
- Title
- to John Thomas, Esq.
- Place Written
- Peterboro, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 31.8 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Smith declines Thomas's invitation to preside at the anniversary of the Rescue of Jerry, who had been arrested in Syracuse under the Fugitive Slave Law and freed by local citizens in 1851. Informs Thomas, Chairman of Jerry Rescue Committee: "The Rescue of Jerry was a great and glorious event... But those who achieved it, and I include in this number all who cheered it on and rejoiced in every step of its progress, have, with few exception, proved themselves unworthy of the work of their own hands." Worn through in the upper left corner.
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