Free Religion: Report of Addresses at a Meeting Held in Boston, May 30, 1867
Description
The published report of the Boston meeting at which the Free Religious Association was organized. It records addresses by advocates of free religion, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lucretia Mott, John Weiss, Robert Dale Owen and Francis Ellingwood Abbot, followed by the association’s constitution and officers.
The full title specifies the meeting’s purpose: “to consider the conditions, wants, and prospects of free religion in America,” together with the constitution of the association there organized. Boston: Adams & Co., 1867. Complete report and organizational documents; the scan also includes preliminary and preservation leaves.
Table of contents 14 entries
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Report
p. 13
- Remarks of the President p. 13
- Remarks of Rev. Henry Blanchard 8
- Remarks of Mrs. Lucretia Mott 11
- Remarks of Mr. Owen 16
- Remarks of Rev. John Weiss 28
- Remarks of Oliver Johnson 30
- Remarks of Francis E. Abbot 37
- Remarks of D. A. Wasson 40
- Remarks of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 48
- Remarks of Ralph Waldo Emerson 52
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Afternoon Session
54
- Articles of Association 54
- List of Officers 55