I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.
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But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.Gerrit Smith
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
Gerrit Smith
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.
Gerrit Smith
The rich and the honorable, if divested of this right, have still their wealth and their honors to repose on, and to solace them.
Gerrit Smith
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
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
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