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- GLC#
- GLC06837
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1856/07/29
- Author/Creator
- Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
- Title
- to J. S. Foy re: politics, slavery and morality in North and South
- Place Written
- New York
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 17.7 cm, Width: 11.2 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson Slavery & Anti-slavery
"I am quite aware that the people of the South are not all 'slave drivers' or 'slave holders,' but the non-slaveholders allow the slave drivers to rule them and rule us by means of them.... We have prostitution and other evils here, but our laws are not on the side of the vices but against them: Is it so with yours?... My friend our house has many windows...."
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