[September 13, 1861.]
Dr. Friend:
Owing to absence from home, I did not see thy letter until
last evening.
It would have given me pleasure to have attended your
meeting of the 10th inst.
I presume I should fully agree with you as to the duty and
expediency of striking more directly at the real cause of the war. As
heretofore I shall use all my endeavors to this end. If the present terrible
struggle does not involve emancipation, partial or complete, it is, at once, a
most wicked and the most ludicrous war ever waged.
Thanking thee and thy friends for the invitation, I shall be
happy to cooperate with you to the extent of my power.
Thou wast deeply interested in John Brown, I think. Let me
call thy attention to a poem, “Our First Martyr,” by Miss Phoebe Cary, of New
York, in the last Independent.
Very truly thy fd.,
John G. Whittier.
SOURCE: Preston Stearns, The Life and Public
Services of George Luther Stearns, p. 256-7
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