[Letter to] My dear Mrs. Chapman
Contributors: Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885. recipient
Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1843
Place of publication: Utica, [New York]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; National anti-slavery standard; Women abolitionists; History; Third parties (United States politics); Antislavery movements; Political participation
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Abby Kelley Foster wants Maria Weston Chapman to take charge of the National Anti-Slavery Standard to unify the factions. John A. Collins is not "disposed to do those things that make for peace in the American Society." With all his unbounded "liberality," Collins is intolerant of those who differ from him. There is no unity in the Third Party faction. The Liberty Press is held in contempt. Charles T. Torrey's Daily Patriot has become a weekly "and is now so weakly its existence is desparied of." The American Citizen has come to an end. The American Society must do something about political action, to which doctrine there have been many converts during the last year. Abby Kelley Foster explains her political position: giving no support to slavery in church or state may be voted for. She regrets that Mrs. Lydia Maria Child opposes this view. She compares the "total pledge" in the anti-slavery cause to teetotal abstinence in the temperance cause.