[Letter to] Dear friend
Contributors: Love, Alfred H. (Alfred Harry), 1830-1913, recipient
Published: 1867
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Abolitionists; Pacifists; National anti-slavery standard; Antislavery movements; Christian moral exhortation; History
Other titles: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879) 
Description: Joseph Carpenter writes Alfred H. Love thanking him for the letter, paper, and pamphlet sent to him, and states that he is always delighted to contemplate and discuss the "subject of Peace". Carpenter asserts that history reveals enough examples of the impossibility of eradicating "evil from the mind of Man" through use of violence, while "the power and omnipotence of Kindness, Gentleness, and Love" and adherence to the "Heavenly Principles of Nonresistance" may do so. Carpenter rebukes the hypocrisy of Christian sects who adhere to the rallying cry of "Peacably if we can, Forcibly if we Must", and in particular rebukes George Fox.
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Title devised by cataloger.

Manuscript is dated "2d mo 4th 1867".

Manuscript includes a post-script by Alfred H. Love stating that Carpenter is the "Friend Joseph" so often referenced by Lydia Maria Child in the Anti-Slavery Standard.