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 — Gerrit Smith
I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. — Gerrit Smith
I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government. — Gerrit Smith
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming — Gerrit Smith
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. — Gerrit Smith
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and — Gerrit Smith
Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion. — Gerrit Smith
It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively state concern — Gerrit Smith
Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not — Gerrit Smith
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man — Gerrit Smith
The poor north has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash. — Gerrit Smith
The only ground on which a neutral state can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that — Gerrit Smith
There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor. — Gerrit Smith
The southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of his word. — Gerrit Smith
There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous. — Gerrit Smith
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. — Gerrit Smith
Truth and mercy require the exertion – never the suppression, of man’s noble rights and powers. — Gerrit Smith
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time — Gerrit Smith
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be. — Gerrit Smith
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God’s system. — Gerrit Smith