Boston, October 30, 1854
Subtitle: Hon. Charles Allen, Sir--On my return home, after some days' absence, I have been shown a copy of the Boston daily advertiser of Friday last, containing an extract from the Worcester spy, purporting to be a sketch of a speech recently made by you. I am further informed that you applied the remarks to me by name. ... To the first statement I reply, I never subscribed a dollar to the fund to establish the Boston chronicle. ... The assertion that I was one of the body guards of Sims, or any other fugitive, on his return to slavery, I pronounce false ...
Contributors: Allen, Charles, 1797-1869; Brown, Simon, 1802-1873; State Temperance Committee (Mass.)
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1854
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Campaign literature, 1854; American; Slavery; Controversial literature; Temperance; United States
Other titles: Hon. Charles Allen, Sir--On my return home, after some days' absence, I have been shown a copy of the Boston daily advertiser; Sir--On my return home, after some days' absence, I have been shown a copy of the Boston daily advertiser
Notes: Signed on p. [2]: Henry J. Gardner.

"Letters to the State Temperance Committee" by Henry J. Garnder and Simon Brown.--p. [3].

Issued by Gardner during his campaign for governor in 1854.

Signatures: [A]² ([A]2 verso blank).