[Letter to] My dear George

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May claims that he cannot see how "abolitionists can consistently vote" for General William Henry Harrison, a pro-slavery candidate. He says that he "cannot bear to think of Daniel Webster's getting up in Alexandria, and calling on Southern Politicians to bear witness for him, that he is sound on the Peculiar Institution." May thinks that if the abolitionists vote only for abolition candidates, and thereby throw the election into the House of Representatives, thus electing Martin Van Buren, that it would be good for the abolition cause, but bad for the country. He believes that abolitionists should be true to their principles in political matters, otherwise they will be used by both parties and the matter of slavery will forever be postponed until "a more convenient season."

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• Samuel May Correspondence