37
Quincy. Friday 11. August 1843.
11. IV:15. Friday.
- White Franklin
- M
rs Abigail Brown Adams.
- Johnson William Clarkson
- Sarah Adams Johnson
Rain all Night, and almost the whole of this day. Confined of course to
the house, and gave a somnolent sitting to Mr Franklin White, who
said he should want only one more. My
Son went to Boston in the Stage, and while we were at
dinner returned home, with his
wife, William C.
Johnson, and his sister Sarah
Adams, named after grandmother, my brother Charles’s
wife.— They left Utica Wednesday
Morning. Came that day to Albany. Yesterday to Springfield—and landed
this day noon at Boston. We went up and spent the evening with them at
Charles’s house I received also this morning, forwarded from New-York by
Lewis Tappan; a Letter from
Thomas Clarkson, of 2 July
1843. at Playford Hall near Ipswich Suffolk in England—with a printed
prospectus for the publication of the proceedings of the Anti-Slavery
convention held at London, from the 19th. to
the 20th. of June last.— A printed address
signed by Thomas Clarkson, in behalf of the British and foreign
Anti-Slavery Society; dated 7. July 1843. to Lord Aberdeen, and earnestly
remonstrating against the annexation of Texas to the United states— The
British and foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter of 14. 21. 28 June and 12 July
and the morning Chronicle of 14 July. These contain a full exposition of
the proceedings of the second World’s convention, at which no very
conspicuous person attended excepting Lord
Morpeth— His Speech to the Convention on taking the chair,
was firm, moderate and discreet— The Resolution honorary to me which he
offered, and which was unanimously adopted, is an indication of personal
respect for my character beyond the Atlantic which ought to fill my soul
with humility and with fervent gratitude to God— These events occuring
at the same period with the manifestation of kindly feeling towards me,
from the people of the State of New-York, and with the invitation from
Cincinnati to lay the corner stone of their observatory, seem
temptations of prosperity too great for frail human nature to resist or
to bear with impunity. I pray for the calmness and sensibility suited to
justice and to the true estimate of worldly honours.— And I received a
Letter from Mr Andrews the young lawyer from Texas who
visited me the day before he embarked with Mr Tappan for England— He is encouraged in the hope of
accomplishing with the aid of British influence the abolition of Slavery
in Texas— But I perceive nothing as yet to relieve the deep distrust
which I would fain discard if I could, of the British ministerial policy
with regard to Slavery in Texas and in our Southern States— Her interest
is to sustain and cherish Slavery there, and there is too much reason to
surmise, that in the conflict between policy and principle, Slavery with
bear off the palm.
