[Letter to] Dear Bro[ther] Wright
Contributors: Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1843
Place of publication: Boston, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Law and legislation; Non-resistant; Interracial marriage; Fugitive slaves; Abolitionists; History; Antislavery movements; Capital punishment
Notes: Holograph, signed.

William Lloyd Garrison describes his sickness from scarlatina; he was in the care of Dr. Robert Wesselhoeft, the friend of the late Charles Follen. He also discusses the illnesses inflicting his family. His brother, James Holley Garrison, died. At his funeral, William Lloyd Garrison exposed the war system and religion in the United States. William Lloyd Garrison is happy to know that Henry Clarke Wright appreciates Garrison's Irish friends. Garrison praises his Irish friends and Elizabeth Pease Nichol. Partly because of Henry Clarke Wright's absence, the Non-Resistant will probably not be renewed in its publication. The subject of capital punishment has been widely discussed, including a debate in the Broadway Tabernacle, NY, between (John Louis) O'Sullivan and Rev. George B. Cheever. There are petitions before the Massachusetts legislature for the abolition of capital punishment. The intermarriage law has passed both houses of the legislature. The Latimer petitions contained more than 65,000 names sent to Congress, entrusted to John Quincy Adams. Garrison writes: "The Miller excitement increases as the time draws near for the fulfilment of the prediction. A considerable number of worthy abolitionists have been carried away by it, and for the time being, are rendered completely useless to our cause. But the delusion has not long to run, and let us rejoice."

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.3, no.54.