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Letters received by William Still
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English
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<div><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 1]</small></p><br /><div class="letter">
<p style="text-align:right;">Roxbury</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">March 5, 1875</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Dear Mr. Still:</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;"> The postman has just brought me your letter of the 3d inst., so that my reply can hardly reach you in
season for your Committee meeting to-morrow noon.
</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;"> Please say to the Committee that I am very much obliged to them
for their courteous invitation to me to attend the centennial anniversary of
the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, &e.,
next month; but there is no prospect that I shall be able to be present, for
I am still a good deal crippled and a constant sufferer from a rheumatic
ailment which has afflicted me for the last two years, though I am at<br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 2]</small></p><br /> present somewhat better than formerly. I
should almost be willing to undertake a pedestrian tour to Philadelphia, if I
could only be assured of the free use of my limbs by the time the celebration is
to come off.
<p style="text-indent:4em;"> If I can do no more, I will at least try to send a letter,
expressive of my feelings, to be read on the occasion as a substitute for
my presence, should the Committee think proper.
</p>
<p style="text-indent:4em;"> How deeply it is to be regretted that the common school
provision <sup>(as intended by Mr. Sumner)</sup> was eliminated from
the Civil Rights Bill! Yet the passage of the Bill as it is, by Congress, is
more than Southern Rebeldom can bear, and will doubtless lead to many scenes of
violence; but it indicates progress in the right direction. No doubt an attempt
will be made to<br /></p><p style="text-align:center;"><small>[Page: 3]</small></p><br /> repeal it at the next session of Congress,
and perhaps successfully, by the Rebel-Democracy, into whose hands it now looks
as if the control of the Government is to pass at the close of
Grant's administration. How he is hated and maligned, and
also feared, by all the enemies of equal rights, North and South!
<p style="text-indent:4em;"> But, though the prospect is a dark one, let us abate nothing of
heart or hope as to the final result, which, if the friends of impartial
freedom remain true to the cause which they long ago espoused under far
more trying circumstances, cannot fail to be still more in accordance with
the claims of justice and humanity than our present highest attainment.
</p>
<p style="padding-left:10em;text-indent:-2em;">Faithfully yours,</p>
<p style="padding-left:13em;text-indent:-2em;">W<sup>m.</sup> Lloyd
Garrison
</p>
</div>
</div>
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Garrison, W[illia]m Lloyd, letter, Roxbury, [Mass.], March 5, 1875, to [William] Still.
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Garrison, William Lloyd, 1838-1909
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William Lloyd Garrison acknowledges the receipt of William Still’s letter requesting a reply by a certain date; reports that there is no possibility of his attending the centennial of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, to which he has been invited, on account of his ill health; offers to send a letter expressing his feelings, which could be read at the event, if it is desired; comments on a federal civil rights bill; and reflects on the poor prospects for equal rights after the end of President Grant’s administration.
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1875-03-05
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3 p.
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public domain
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Still, William, 1821-1902 (Recipient)
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<a href="http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore00000002022.Manuscript.000052058">http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore00000002022.Manuscript.000052058</a>
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rutgers-lib:26932
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