To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned,… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
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… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system. — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
