[Letter to] My dear Wife
Contributors: Garrison, Helen Eliza, 1811-1876, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1836
Place of publication: Providence, [RI]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Abolitionists; Militarism; Antislavery movements; Sabbath; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

William Lloyd Garrison has to give a public address in Fall River on the 4th of July. Garrison describes his journey to Providence, Rhode Island. Garrison writes: "As a specimen of the growing wickedness of the times, take the fact that a military company is to arrive here by appointment to-morrow, (the Sabbath,) from New-York, and that another military company is to turn out here to escort them through the streets! In the afternoon, they are to march to Rev. Dr. Crocker's meeting-house, where I suppose they have been specially invited. Guns, bayonets, swords, plumes, banners, epaulets, in church on the Sabbath! It seems a studied, and is a most aggravated profanation of the day."

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.2, no.39.