Letter from Jonathan Ward, Plymouth, Massachusetts, to Amos Augustus Phelps, 1838 September 11th

Jonathan Ward writes Amos A. Phelps suggesting that agents of the society who are able to preach be permitted to do so in places where preaching is needed. He describes controversy in some of the churches in Plymouth. He discusses his anti-slavery sentiments and explains events occurring within the society: "The Society at the same meeting appointed a committee to propose a declaration which shall announce the judgment of the A.A.S.S. convening the common error that our enterprise is of a political and not a religious character. And yet they appointed on this committee Garrison who is opposing all the institutions of religion and thus proclaimed to the country and to the world that his religion is a good religion and so goes his influence..to pull down the institutions of the Christian.."
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