American - Politician | March 6, 1797 - December 28, 1874
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
Gerrit Smith
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I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
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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.
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My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
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Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
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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.
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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.
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