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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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But, although America cannot be justly charged with violating the rights of Turkey, Turkey nevertheless can be justly charged with violating the rights of America.
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Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.
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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.
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But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.
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To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.
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I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
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We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
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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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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.
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I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.
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The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
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I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
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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.
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True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.
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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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Born:
March 6, 1797
Died:
December 28, 1874
(aged 77)
Bio:
Gerrit Smith was a leading United States social reformer, abolitionist, politician, and philanthropist.
Known for:
Three Discourses On The Religion Of Reason (1859)
No treason in civil war (1865)
3 DISCOURSES ON THE RELIGION O
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