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
load north poor
The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
honesty facts honesty-love
But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.
republican come-up
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
slavery suits sometimes
It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.
slavery causes influence
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.
slavery theory concern
Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
slavery needs prove
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.