[Letter to] My dear H. C. W.
Contributors: Wright, Henry Clarke, 1797-1870, recipient
Series: William Lloyd Garrison Correspondence (1823-1879)
Published: 1867
Place of publication: Roxbury, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Democratic Party (U.S.); Prejudices; Abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

William Lloyd Garrison thought it "seemed rather hard" that Henry Clarke Wright should have to leave for Cleveland on the morning of Thanksgiving Day. He was sorry to hear of the "bitter, malignant colorphobia [sic] still holding mastery over the public mind in Ohio." Garrison believes that "its main concentration is found in the so-called but utterly spurious Democratic party; and this because that party is very largely made up of the ignorance and depravity abounding in the land. It is deplorable to see how badly the Irish are cursed by it; ..." Garrison condemns Andrew Johnson's presidential message. He was glad to hear about Thomas and Mary Jones and their children.

Merrill, Walter M. Letters of William Lloyd Garrison, v.5, no.221.