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1 See articles on ‘The Late Bishop [John Henry] Hopkins’ of Vermont (Independent, Jan. 30, 1868); ‘A Pro-Slavery Calumny Refuted’ (Ind. Dec. 10, 1868), a reply to Revs. J. M. Sturtevant, Edward Beecher, and John P. Gulliver, who had accused the ‘Boston Abolitionists’ of dividing their denunciations equally between ‘Southern slavery and evangelical Christianity’; ‘Mr. [George] Peabody and the South’ (Ind. Aug. 19, 1869), elicited by Mr. Peabody's expressing his ‘cordial esteem for the high honor, integrity, and heroism of the Southern people,’ and ‘Honored beyond his Deserts [George Peabody]’ (Ind. Feb. 10, 1870); ‘Mistaking the Product for the Germinating Power’ (Ind. Oct. 9, 1873), in reply to an assertion that the anti-slavery agitators ‘made little impression upon the public mind’; ‘False and Invidious Comparisons,’ by Revs. F. H. Hedge and E. E. Hale, at the Memorial Service to Dr. S. G. Howe (Boston Journal, Feb. 10, 1876, signed ‘Fiat Justitia’); Reply to W. H. Ward's aspersions of W. L. G. and the abolitionists in a eulogistic sketch of Joshua Leavitt (Ind. Nov. 17, 1870).
2 Mar. 20, 1874.
3 Mar. 11, 1874.
4 May's Recollections of the A. S. Conflict. Wilson's Rise and Fall of the Slave Power.
5 Ms. May 2, 1870, W. L. G. to H. Wilson.
6 ‘The truth is, in writing his History, he has failed to show the vital difference between genuine and sectarian abolitionism, but tried to play the amiable all round the circle; finding no fault with anything said or done by the sectarian seceders, but mildly deploring the acts of some of the old abolitionists—as in the case of Foster and Beach’ (Ms. Jan. 23, 1872, W. L. G. to Samuel May, Jr.).
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