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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whittier, John Greenleaf 1807-1892 (search)
wn or the new generation, who may assemble on the occasion of commemoration. There is work yet to be done which will task the best efforts of us all. For thyself, I need not say that the love and esteem of early boyhood have lost nothing by the test of time; and I am, very cordially, thy friend, John G. Whittier. Anti-slavery anniversary. Read at the semi-centennial celebration of the American Anti-slavery Society at Philadelphia on Dec. 3, 1883: Oak Knoll, Danvers, Mass. Nov. 30, 1883. I need not say how gladly I would be with you at the semi-centennial of the American Anti-slavery Society. I am, I regret to say, quite unable to gratify this wish, and can only represent myself by a letter. Looking back over the long years of half a century, I can scarcely realize the conditions under which the convention of 1833 assembled. Slavery was predominant. Like Apollyon in Pilgrim's progress, it straddled over the whole breadth of the way. Church and State, press an