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Regarding missionary work; anticipates approval to go to India and East Africa as a missionary, and they need more missionaries to travel to Southeast Africa. Recently preached that more ministers should go South to preach to slaveholders. Says that "I am racked, and tormented on the subject of slavery" and that he boarded with a reverend who was"as hot as all the Abolition fires can make him." Dr. [Lyman] Beecher is in Indiana to ordain his son [Charles Beecher].

Advice not to join the Methodist church because so many members own slaves; "In the Methodist Episcopal Church, there are said to be more than three thousand ministers [and] twenty five thousand who hold slaves . . . Such characters I do not regard as Christians, but thieves and robbers in the worst sense of those words." He separated from the Presbyterian Church because it was"stained with slavery," writes on the elections of 1844 and 1848.

Danger and demoralization of party politics over slavery and disunion. Discusses the fall of other civilizations and laments the potential fracture of the country; "The dissolution of this Union would be the dissolution of my every hope of American Greatness."

Seeking support for the Albany Patriot, published by the Albany Liberty Party Convention. They need to purchase a press "and the necessary fixtures to establish an office in which the Patriot can be printed." Tappan has suggested selling $1000 of antislavery books at a discount and give half of the profits to Jackson to sustain the"Patriot," and asks that supporters of anti-slavery purchase these books. Includes a handwritten note from Jackson, asking Chapman to buy some of Tappan's books.

The author’s informal will, “To be read immediately after my death.” Stipulations about his burial clothes, coffin, and to delay burial until "72 Hours after my Death.” Prince, an enslaved man, is to be set free while the remainder of the enslaved persons would continue to serve his wife. Bequeaths his property to his wife, "to be disposed of as she may think proper."

Regarding the Deputy Marshall in Wilmington working to arrest Mr. Gray. Examined copies of depositions from the Secretary of State, noting they are "copies of copies, and I doubt whether they furnish sufficient evidence to authorize a commitment. I also doubt whether the facts are such as to warrant a reasonable expectation of procuring a conviction." N.B. Hiram Gray was a captain charged in 1845 for violating laws suppressing the slave trade.

Asks for help in capturing an escaped slave, Emily, whom he believes has poisoned his son. She is presumably on her way to Ohio; "If you are acquainted with any of the abolitionists in a habit of assisting . . . slaves will you be so kind as to write to them that this girl is a murderer and flies not from slavery but justice." Offers $150 to anyone, black or white, if caught in Ohio or $500 if taken in Canada. Wants her caught because of her "evil example" and to thwart enemies trying to keep her from punishment.

Recounts the struggle he and James G. Birney had publishing antislavery tracts during their attempt to emancipate Kentucky. Seeks support to organize a Liberty Party convention to produce a"revolution in public sentiment on the subject of Slavery..." Was "sadly disappointed" by proslavery sentiment in Indiana. Munsell lost all of his professional patrons when he left the Whig Party and joined the Liberty Party in 1840, and states that the Liberty Party organized the"Indiana Freeman."

Regarding the charge that Clarissa, a free black woman, is guilty of keeping a house of ill repute; she "unlawfully did keep and maintain a certain common ill governed and disorderly house..." In addition, " in the said house for the . . . gain of her the said Clarissa certain persons as well men as women of evil name and of dishonest conversation . . . willfully did cause and procure to frequent and come together . . . misbehaving themselves."

Letter from Alanson, a Unitarian minister and antislavery advocate, to his wife. Expresses his melancholy; "when I am away from you, alone, and so sad, that I can neither rest days nor sleep nights, then, I know how low to sympathize with you."