[Letter to] My dear Sir
Contributors: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, recipient
Published: 1863
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; American Anti-Slavery Society Anniversary (1863 : Philadelphia, Pa.); States' rights (American politics); Abolitionists; Congresses; American Anti-Slavery Society; Antislavery movements; History
Other titles: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879) 
Description: Owen Lovejoy informs William Lloyd Garrison that he has only just received the invitation to attend the American Anti-Slavery Society's anniversary meeting in Philadelphia, and that he hopes to be present. Lovejoy asks that Garrison, in the event that he cannot attend, note that Lovejoy is in favor of an "act of Congress abolishing slavery" in the entirety of the United States, and that holding or claiming to hold a slave be made a penal offense. Lovejoy opines that if the construction of a Pacific Railroad in promotion of the "general welfare" is deemed to be constitutional in the absence of "any specific grant of powers in the Constitution", then it logically follows that the eradication of slavery would also be deemed a constitutional act, and that arguments of "State sovereignity" in the matter are not defensible from a Constitutional perspective.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

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