Gerrit Smith

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.
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

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.
Gerrit Smith

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.
Gerrit Smith

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.
Gerrit Smith

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.
Gerrit Smith

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.
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

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

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

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