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Series: Maria Weston Chapman Correspondence (1835-1885)
Published: 1837
Place of publication: [Boston, Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; Boston Female Anti-slavery Society; History
Notes: Holograph.

This manuscript, is an account, partly written in the form of quoted conversation, of the controversy about the acceptance of Mrs. Maria Weston Chapman's report, which at the time was "almost through the press." Mary S. Parker, Martha V. Ball, Lucy M. Ball, Emma Davis, and Catherine M. Sullivan wished to have inserted a statement to the effect that the report was not accepted unanimously. Mrs. Chapman was willing to insert the statement, but a further dispute arose about who should sign the statement. Henry G. Chapman and Anne Warren Weston disapproved of tampering with the report. Further discussion raised a doubt whether the report had been accepted by a constitutional majority, and Mrs. Chapman thought the proceeding "a breach of confidence on the part of the signers." Mrs. Chapman had no doubt but that two thirds of the members present at the time of acceptance rose in favor of the report.