Thursday, November 13, 2014

Reverend James Freeman Clarke to N. Augustus Staples, January 1, 1863

January 1,1863.

I shall be in Washington on the second Sunday in January, and cannot exchange with you on that day. I am sorry it happens so, for I wished to have an exchange with you.

This is the great day which separates forever the people of this Union from slavery and slaveholding, — for the border slavery will fall of itself soon.

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, good will to men.

SOURCE: Edwin Everett Hale, Editor, James Freeman Clarke: Autobiography, Diary and Correspondence, p. 284

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