Gerrit Smith's Profile
Brief about Gerrit Smith: By info that we know Gerrit Smith was born at 1970-01-01. And also Gerrit Smith is American Politician.
Some Gerrit Smith's quotes. Goto "Gerrit Smith's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Men, Peace, WarIt, 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.
Tags: Slavery, Sometimes, StateLet 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.
Tags: Cannot, God, WrongOur 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.
Tags: Human, Political, RightsThe 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.
Tags: Far, Respect, SheThe 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.
Tags: God, Marriage, RespectWhen 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.
Tags: Good, Home, TimeI do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
Tags: Government, Property, SlavesI am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
Tags: Care, Plain, RhetoricI believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
Tags: GovernmentI need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
Tags: Families, Prove, SlaveryI prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
Tags: God, Republican, WordLet the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
Tags: Enemy, Free, PoorMy rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
Tags: God, Grace, SpringOur concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
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