[Letter to] Dear Sir
Contributors: Gunn, Marcus, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1840
Place of publication: Glasgow, [Scotland]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; History; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists
Notes: Holograph, signed.

William Lloyd Garrison praises Marcus Gunn's "Essay on the Domestic Policy of the United States." He thinks it may further human rights. Garrison comments: "A monarchy is accompanied by many evil and bitter things, and is destined to pass away, in the fulness of time, in whatever country it may at present be found. I am for no other change, however, than such as may be effected by peaceable and moral means; for 'they that take the sword, shall perish with the sword.'" Garrison suggests that Gunn adds a strong rebuke to slavery in the essay.

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.2, no.206.