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It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

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The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
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I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.
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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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Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
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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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I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
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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.
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But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.
Gerrit Smith
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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.
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.
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There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.
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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
I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.
Gerrit Smith
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.
Gerrit Smith
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.
Gerrit Smith
To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.
Gerrit Smith
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.
Gerrit Smith
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 destroyed.
Gerrit Smith
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
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
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I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
Gerrit Smith
Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion.
Gerrit Smith
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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To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.
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
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
Gerrit Smith
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men and all nations.
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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