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had taken advantage of any relation with the State Society to circulate our views on other subjects besides slavery, in any way justly implicating the Society, or making any other person responsible but ourselves.’
For more than a year prior to the Clerical Appeal he had made no allusion to the Sabbath question, directly or indirectly.
Being attacked and misrepresented on this subject, in order to the suppression of the Liberator, ‘it was due to the cause,’ as well as to his own character, to repel the attack, and show that his views on the Sabbath were neither novel, nor jacobinical, nor lacking high evangelical authority.
There remained the difference with the Executive Committee in New York, which no amount of public or private interchange of views could adjust—witness that between Mr. Garrison and Elizur Wright, of which we have already had a fragment, and have here another:1
1 Ante, p. 168.
2 Ms.
3 The text of this has been preserved only in Mr. Garrison's citations above (p. 168). A second letter was dated Oct. 10, and desired the use of Mr. Garrison's name for the list of contributors to the enlarged Quarterly Anti-Slavery Magazine, which Mr. Wright edited with marked ability. On this head the reply (dated Oct. 23, 1837: see 2d Ann. Report Mass. Abolition Society) was favorable, and, for the rest, covered both letters.
4 ‘In my magazine you shall have full sweep against the clergy and all other dignities which live by making tools of other people’ (Ms. Oct. 10, 1837).
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