[Letter to] Dear bro[ther] George
Contributors: Benson, George William, 1808-1879, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1837
Place of publication: Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Massachusetts; Massachusetts. General Court; Fugitive slaves; Abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

The state legislature has voted on the subject of slavery with an extraordinary change in the abolitionists' favor. There has been a strong effort by their enemies to suprress all the resolutions on the final vote. William Lloyd Garrison trusts that the right of trial by jury will be secured for runaway slaves in Massachusetts. Garrison mourns the death of Ann Greene Chapman, mentioning her bequeaths to abolitionists and abolitionist causes. Rev. Samuel J. May officiated her funeral.

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.2, no.78.