[Letter to] Dear friend
Contributors: Webb, Richard Davis, 1805-1872, recipient
Series: Samuel May Correspondence
Published: 1862
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln); United States; Abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Description: May tells of the announcement of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which he is elated about despite his feeling that it should have been issued at the beginning of the war. May hints at a military coup d'e tat by General George Brinton McClellan. He says the North's worst enemies are traitors and that he thinks the Proclamation has checkmated the English pro-slavery party.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

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