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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
honors repose rich solace wealth
The rich and the honorable, if divested of this right, have still their wealth and their honors to repose on, and to solace them.
attempt cannot god palpable
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.
consent ranks room secure slavery votes
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.
load north poor
The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
errors freely time
As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.