Elizabeth Pease Nichol writes to Anne Warren Weston in regards to finding the numerous withdrawals from pro-slavery churches in America encouraging. The cotton interests are taking alarm at the British India movement-it is a sure "indication that the friends of India have not based their sanguine expectations with respect to its anti-slavery tendency." She is pleased that the "integrity of John A. Collins had been so triumphantly vindicated." The London committee has taken up the question of slavery in the East Indies. George Thompson is dividing his labor between India and the Corn laws. The anti-bread tax agitation is progressing energetically. She holds forth on British politics and the prevailing injustice to the laboring classes. She believes that "toryism is the embodiment of pride" and in order to "carry out into practice, the grand republican doctrine" you must be under the influence of the spirit "and precepts of the Gospel, which is a religion of love." She describes the wretched poverty in manufacturing districts and considers it short of miraculous that the oppressed do not rebel. She comments on British colonial policies such as the way the war carried into China "because they have the morality to refuse our poison." She praises Reverend Spencer, clergyman and philanthropist, and author of a tract read by Maria. She compares William Lloyd Garrison and Luther.
- By Nichol, Elizabeth Pease, 1807-1897, Weston, Anne Warren, 1812-1890
- Dated December 30, 1841, in United Kingdom
- Held by Boston Public Library
- Part of Anti-Slavery Collection
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