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Gerrit Smith


American
March 6, 1797
Politician
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I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.


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


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


Gerrit Smith
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Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.


Gerrit Smith
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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.
Gerrit Smith
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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.
Gerrit Smith
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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.
Gerrit Smith
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.
Gerrit Smith
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.
Gerrit Smith
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