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
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.
turkeys rights nonsense
To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.
men rights political
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.
war slavery permanent
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
honesty facts honesty-love
But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.
judging slavery may
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.