Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 to Aaron M. Powell

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GLC#
GLC08958
Type
Letters
Date
10 June 1862
Author/Creator
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
Title
to Aaron M. Powell
Place Written
New York, New York
Pagination
3 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 13 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Discusses an abolitionist meeting he attended, where a memorial was drafted calling on President Lincoln to immediately abolish slavery. Now in New York, an "immense, dirty, bustling, turbulent city." Says of Theodore Tilton, one of his companions at the meeting "should his life be spared, he is destined to be 'a burning and a shining light' in the cause of humanity and progress."

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