Letter from Henry C. Bloss to Samuel Downer regarding the success of the reunion and his reminiscences

Letter from Henry C. Bloss to Samuel Downer regarding the success of the reunion and his reminiscences

This is a four-page letter from Henry C. Bloss, written on Titusville Morning Herald letterhead. Bloss reports to Samuel Downer that several attendees of the reunion of the Free Soil Party informed him of the pleasurable time they had. He then states that had the event been only a few days later he would have asked Downer for an invitation, since his father was was a firm member of the abolition movement. Bloss then discusses the activities in which his father participated in order to support the movement. He closes by saying he will be coming to Boston and hopes to visit Downer's Landing in order to experience a real clambake.

Downer, Samuel, 1807-1881

Bloss, William Clough, 1795-1863

Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879

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Bloss, Henry C.

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Boston (Mass.)

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1833-1852

Hingham Public Library

OFFICE OF THE

Titusville Morning Herald

AND

Titusville Weekly Herald.

 

H. C. BLOSS, Editor.        

Titusville, Pa., Aug 9 1877 

Hon Sam^l Downer

Dear Sir

Eds [sic] Mayor[?] Mitchell + …[illegible]…  Sneetzer  have just got home from Boston + told me what a good time they had at Downer's Landing.  They told me what the papers have already made mention of, of <insertion:the> gathering, of the Anti Slavery leaders there in a few days

It will be a notable occasion.  Had the time been a few days later, I should have written you + told you that if the affair was not exclusive, I should like to attend, not par-ticularly, as a member of the press but because my father was one of the early apostles of the Anti Slavery cause.  He lived in Rochester N.Y. at-tended the Buffalo Con Free Soil Convention + supported  its Ticket, + long before in 1833 – published “The Rights of Man” in Rochester - an associate in the early moral warfare of Garrison - + later, a follower of the Free Soil

OFFICE OF THE

Titusville Morning Herald

AND

Titusville Weekly Herald.

H. C. BLOSS, Editor.        

Titusville, Pa., …………. 187

leaders of a later epoch – my early recollections are revived by the reunion you contemplate, and which it is so fit for you to be celebrated under your aus-pices.  I hope the day may be one of glorious memory to you!

I shall come to Boston in a week or so, + if I have time will take a trip to Downers Landing and see what a clam bake is made of, and if I can meet you for a little while so much the better.

                                Yrs [sic] Respectfully

                                H C Bloss

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