Internet Archive's in-browser bookreader "theater" requires JavaScript to be enabled. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature.

[Letter] to Mr. William Lloyd Garrison our tried Friend and beloved Brother [manuscript]

by: Van Rensalaer, Thomas; Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, recipient

Publication date: 1839

Topics: Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879, Van Rensalaer, Thomas, New England Non-Resistance Society, African Americans, African Americans, Antislavery movements, Abolitionists

Publisher: New York

Collection: bplscas; bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: English

Holograph, signed

Thomas Van Rensalaer believes that some of the men in the anti-slavery ranks will not be satisfied until William Lloyd Garrison is annihilated. Van Rensalaer did not "think the non resistance principal would produce such a state of feeling as it has in the profess Friends of the oppressed." Three months ago it was proposed to send Van Rensalaer to Liberia to investigate the "state of the Colonists," but an objection was raised on the grounds that he had adopted William Lloyd Garrison's "no government" doctrine