[Letter to] My dear Mr. Garrison
Contributors: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, recipient
Published: 1866
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Suffrage; Literacy tests (Election law); Abolitionists; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Antislavery movements; Social reformers; History
Other titles: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879) (Boston Public Library)
Description: Theodore Tilton forwards a letter to William Lloyd Garrison, and reports that he is studying Missouri "affairs" on the spot, having had "full conferences" in St. Louis with the "leading radicals of the State". Tilton relates that the plan outlined in the enclosed letter seems to him to be a "necessary precaution" in the effort towards "reordering the institutions of the Southern States". Tilton opines that the "ballot ought to be consitutionally denied" to illiterate persons in the Southern States, with suffrage (regardless of race) only granted upon the ability to read.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title devised by cataloger.

Manuscript annotated on recto, with "6" in pencil beneath Tilton's salutation to Garrison.