Helen Stowell to Frederick Douglass, March 24, 1877

Pentwater, March 24^th 1877.

Honored Sir

I beg you will allow me to express the great pleasure I feel in your appointment of United State's Marshal of the District of Columbia, by congratulating you. In my infant years the Love of Liberty and justice in my Soul taught me to reverence the name of Fred Douglass, and later I connect it with just such names as Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, and thousands of brave men and women that have given life, love, and wealth to truth, justice, and Liberty. Many bitter tears have I shed over the wrongs of your

people, and many have been my prayers for their deliverance. Last I gave my dearest Friend to the cause. He won a brave soldiers laurels–shot by rebels in Missippi. Deem it not amiss that I express to you my sincere thankfulness at the result of our late extraordinary political campaign in all its various phases. Our nation will be bettered by it, for much good must result from such a triumph of right over wrong.

Very truly your obedient servant

Helen StowellStowell, Helen

Pentwater Michigan

To Mr Douglass.

Marshal for the district of Columbia

Creator

Stowell, Helen

Date

March 24, 1877

Description

Helen Stowell to FD. ALS: General Correspondence File, reel 3, frames 070-71, FD Papers, DLC. Congratulates him on his appointment as Marshal. [Editor's note: correspondent is listed as "Stowall" in the Calendar of Unpublished Correspondence].

Publisher

This document was calendared in the published volume and has not been published in full before.

Collection

Library of Congress, Frederick Douglass Papers: General Correspondence File, reel 3, frames 070-71

Type

Letters

Publication Status

Unpublished