Gerrit Smith
Gerrit Smith
Gerrit Smithwas a leading United States social reformer, abolitionist, politician, and philanthropist. Spouse to Ann Carroll Fitzhugh, Smith was a candidate for President of the United States in 1848, 1856, and 1860, but only served 18 months in the federal government—in Congress as a Free Soil Party Representative, in 1853–4...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 March 1797
CountryUnited States of America
men fellow-man assuming
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
men care littles
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
men rights liberty
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.
men may hills
But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.
war men broken
It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.
men rights noble
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
war slavery permanent
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.