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Brief about Gerrit Smith: By info that we know Gerrit Smith was born at 1970-01-01. And also Gerrit Smith is American Politician.

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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, War

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.

Tags: Slavery, Sometimes, State

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.

Tags: Cannot, God, Wrong

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.

Tags: Human, Political, Rights

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.

Tags: Far, Respect, She

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.

Tags: God, Marriage, Respect

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.

Tags: Good, Home, Time

But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.

Tags: Great, Honesty, Love

I 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, Slaves

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

Tags: Care, Plain, Rhetoric

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

Tags: Government

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

Tags: Object, Rail, Roads

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

Tags: Families, Prove, Slavery

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

Tags: God, Republican, Word

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

Tags: Society, Welcomed

Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.

Tags: Enemy, Free, Poor

My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.

Tags: God, Grace, Spring

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

Tags: However, Slavery, Theory

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

Tags: Load, Poor, Slavery

There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.

Tags: Free, Mean, Men
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