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
mean men class
There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.
men rights liberty
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.
slavery needs prove
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
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 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.
men rights noble
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
morning mean gone
I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.
home men good-man
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.
organization slavery anti-slavery
I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.
marriage reading southern
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.
believe government people
I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
turkeys america rights
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.
rights charter humans
To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.
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.