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Showing posts with label John Jay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Jay. Show all posts
Friday, May 15, 2026

John Jay to Senator Charles Sumner, July 5, 1852

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I know too well the strength and depth of your antislavery principles, and have been too recently assured of your anxiety to utter your full...

Senator Charles Sumner to John Jay, July 8, 1852

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I thank you for your watchful friendship. Had I imagined the impatience of friends, I would have anticipated their most sanguine desires. Bu...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Senator Charles Sumner to John Jay, May 23, 1851

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My aim, while attending to all the duties of my post, will be to do something to secure a hearing for our cause; and I wish in advance to be...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

Charles Sumner to John Jay, May 13, 1850

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I am sick at heart when I observe the apostasies to freedom. There is one thing needful in our public men—backbone. 1 In this is comprised ...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

John Jay To The English Anti-slavery Society,* 1788

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Gentlemen: Our society has been favoured with your letter of the 1st of May last, and are happy that efforts so honourable to the nation...
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