Editor "Douglass' Paper:" Sir:—The friends of the anti-slavery cause earnestly hope there will be a large gathering of friends from our vicinity, and from a distance, at the Annual Meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society next week, (the 11th, 12th and 13th.) We are making arrangements to find homes for as many as possible, and I am commissioned to say to all from abroad, far or near, that if they will call immediately on arriving, either at the store of Isaac Post, No. 4 Exchange St., or at the Insurance Office of Daniel Anthony, No. 9 Arcade, they will, if possible, be sent to homes where they can be hospitably entertained during their stay.

G. B. StebbinsStebbins, Giles Badger

Giles Badger Stebbins (1817–1900), an abolitionist and author, first toured on the lecture circuit in 1845 in the company of Abby Kelley and Stephen S. Foster. Stebbins’s writings focused on such diverse subjects as transcendentalism, abolition, temperance, industrial and agricultural development, and later Spiritualism and “psychic science.” His views on abolition found him firmly in Garrison’s camp, but he retained a cordial relationship with politically minded abolitionists, including Douglass and Gerrit Smith. In 1853 Stebbins published a book outlining the opinions of prominent blacks in opposition to colonization. Giles B. Stebbins, Upward Steps of Seventy Years (New York, 1890), 86–90, 102–05; Hewitt, Women’s Activism and Social Change, 118. .