Letter from William Ashby to Albert G. Browne declining Samuel Downer's invitation to the reunion
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Newburyport Augst 1 1877
A G Browne Esqr
Respected Friend, my hearty thanks are due you for the kind invitation of S Downer Esqr to attend the meeting of the free soilers of 1848 at the Melville gardens on the 9th of the present month. I[t] would be a great pleasure to me to meet on this occasion to recal[sic] the memories of that year and its before and after which ten-ded to final free soil and emancipation but at the age of Ninety (90) with all its growing infirmaties[sic] of body and mind must put the veto and tell me my social pleasures must be within the …[illegible]… circle of my home. I hope there will be a full meeting and in bringing the memories of the past and tend to spur on the resolve and efforts of this meeting with the good common since of the …[illegible]… at large may proposed such measures tending to allay the allarming[sic] which now sorroweth us by the strife between Capital and labor, and find the lasting and happy medium between a dry crust and an overflow-ing bowl. My thanks are due through you to S Downer Esqr for his kind in-vitation may the oil of his generous hospitalities flow on as pure and un- adulterated (with that of his manufactory's) run purer than ever trickled down Aarons beard and garments.
With very friendly greetings may we yet meet again, and again.
I am truly yours
William Ashby
(Excuse a trembling hand)