1836 Jan 26. Stokes to Buxton, about his conviction that any reconciliation with Stephen was now impossible. …
1836; Gale Group;
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pp 351-58 1836 Jan 26. Stokes to Buxton, about his conviction that any reconciliation with Stephen was now impossible. He therefore reveals to Buxton a conversation with Stephen three weeks before, in which he had tried to impress him with the harm he was doing the negro by introducing dissension into the Society and asked what his father and Wilberforce would think of his action. Stephen insisted that he had been insulted and that every slave might remain a slave rather than his honour should be hurt. To show good will towards Stokes he would refrain from sending a challenge to Buxton, although this offer did not extend to other members of the committee. A subsequent letter had failed in its purpose. Stokes mentions having shown Macaulay's letter and Buxton's to Forster. In a postscript he describes an interview with John Reddie, who was acting as an intermediary with Stephen and who had persuaded him to break with a certain Captain Roke and renounce his hostile measures. In this interview terms were outlined by Reddie for the withdrawal of the letters because George Stephen claimed that before December 16 he had informed Buxton that they were confidential. In return he would neither publish nor refer to them again, but if anyone felt injured by what he had already published they should now take that matter up with him as though none of the rest of the controversy had happened. Stokes was going to lay the whole conversation before the committee the next day. (Copy.)
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