September, 1846.
My Dear Sumner: — I
want you to repeat to yourself, aloud, all your objections to speaking
to-night; to challenge each excuse and find from what part of your nature it
comes, and to shoot down every one that utters not the shibboleth — “Conscience,
benevolence, duty!”
Ever yours,
S. G. Howe.
Would Hillard help
us? Would he preside or speak?
SOURCE: Laura E. Richards, Editor, Letters and
Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe, Volume 2, p. 250
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