Letter from William Chase to Samuel Downer accepting his invitation to the reunion with a benediction

Letter from William Chase to Samuel Downer accepting his invitation to the reunion with a benediction

In this two-page letter William Chase acknowledges receipt his invitation to attend a Reunion of the Free Soil Party and then gladly accepts the offer to meet with those men who fought for freedom despite being ridiculed by others. He ends the letter by asking for God to give the country the strength to fight for equality and justice for all people.

Downer, Samuel, 1807-1881

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Chase, William

Hingham Public Library

1877 August 4

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Hingham (Mass.)

Salem (Mass.)

1848

1877 August 9

Hingham Public Library

Salem  August 4th 1877 

Dear Sir.

Your kind invitation to be present at Melville Gardens on the 9th Inst[sic] is received.

I shall most gladly avail myself of the privelege[sic] of meeting the veterans of 1848, who unfurled the banner of liberty for all men, and fought the battle out "on that line", although then so much despised and scoffed at as fools and fanatics.

May God give us strength and courage to contend for equality and equal justice for all in the present, and may we transmit these sacred principles to our children, so that we may become a nation free in deed as well as name.

                                Very Respt[sic] your's

                                W^m Chase 

To/ Samuel Downer Esq

7” x 9”