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Quarto, one page, written neatly in ink, in very good, clean, and legible condition.Palfrey, clergyman, author, politician, and abolitionist, here writes Brooks to enlist his support in protesting the Annexation of Texas, which abolitionists vehemently opposed because it meant the extension of slavery into the vastness of Texas and beyond.
"My dear Sir,
I take the liberty to mail to your address some papers which will acquaint you with what we are doing in Massachusetts in the matter of the Annexation of Texas. Can you not get up a public meeting in your town, with the cooperation of others, able, like yourself, to give an impulse to the movement? We wish to pile mountains of remonstrances on the tables of Congress. Whatever is to be done must be done at once. …"
John Gorham Palfrey (May 2, 1796 – April 26, 1881) was an American clergyman and historian who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. A Unitarian minister, he played a leading role in the early history of Harvard Divinity… Read More