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
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The rich and the honorable, if divested of this right, have still their wealth and their honors to repose on, and to solace them.
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Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.
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There is no room in our ranks for the politician, who, to secure the votes of the youth, would consent that American slavery be perpetual.
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The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
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We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
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But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.
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I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
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To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.
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But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.
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My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
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The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
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I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.
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The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.
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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.