[Letter to] Dear Garrison

Alternate Titles

• William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879) (Boston Public Library)

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Samuel Joseph May inquires of William Lloyd Garrison if he deems the time right to commence advertising the meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society, to be held in Syracuse, N.Y. on September 29-30, with notices in all the antislavery newspapers and the Tribune. May asserts that Garrison's and Wendell Phillips's attendance alone would draw a large crowd, but states his hopes that other luminaries will attend, as well. May writes that he has invited Theodore Parker to preach in his church on October 1st, and to join them for the meeting beforehand. May provides Garrison with specifics concerning potential locations, their capacity, and their respective costs. May declares to Garrison that he finds the Know-Nothings to comprise a "disturbing element in the poltical atmosphere", and laments that the United States is controlled by "political parties that are based upon nothing but opposition to each other in a strife after the ascendency". May relates to Garrison that they remain in need of a reporter for the upcoming convention.

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