Letter from Albert G. Browne to Samuel Downer requesting additional invitations and forwarding William Ashby's regards

Letter from Albert G. Browne to Samuel Downer requesting additional invitations and forwarding William Ashby's regards

This is a two-page letter from Albert G. Browne to Samuel Downer. Browne suggests that Downer invite Daniel Potter, Benjamin A. Gray, Abner A. Goodale, and Edmund Smith to the reunion of the Free Soil Party. He says that he hopes Downer does not think badly of him for suggesting more names, but that he thought Downer would not want to omit any Free Soilers. He also says that he received a letter from William Ashby, who asked him to thank Downer for his invitation. Unfortunately Ashby is elderly and cannot attend. At the end of the letter Browne has placed an extract from Ashby's letter.

Downer, Samuel, 1807-1881

Potter, Daniel E.

Gray, Benjamin A.

Goodale, Abner A.

Smith, Edmund

Ashby, William

Reunions

Abolitionists

Abolition movement

Political parties

Invitations

Gratitude

Happiness

Friendship

Nostalgia

Sick persons

Older people

Christianity

Browne, Albert G. (Albert Gallatin), 1805-1885

Hingham Public Library

1877 August 3

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Salem (Mass.)

1848

1877 August 9

Hingham Public Library

                Salem Aug^t 3^d 1877 

Sam^l Downer Esq

My Dear Sir

I am afraid you may think I am "riding a free horse to death" by giving you additional names. My thought is however, that your thought would be to omit no good and true Free Soiler of 1848. Of course you should do as seemeth to you good in this matter of invitations.

I call to mind Daniel Potter and Benj A. Gray and Abner A. Goodale of Salem and Edmund Smith of Newburyport.

I have received a beautiful autograph letter from Friend Ashby, which I will bring with me on Thursday; wherein he desires me to thank you for your kind invitation, which he deems it prudent to decline "on account of his extreme age". He … [illegible]… noble sentiments, as earnest in the cause of humanity as fifty years ago - for I have known him for that period as an earnest anti slavery man - He adds as a postscript: "Excuse a trembling hand"  It is as firm and better hand writing than that of

                Your friend

                Albert G. Browne 

Extract

"My thanks are due through you to S. Downer Esq for his kind invitation; May the oil of his generous hospitalities flow on as pure and unadulterated, (with that of his manufactory's) run purer than ever trickled down Aaron's beard and garments"

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