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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."

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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 prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."
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"Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it."
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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."
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"To no human charter am I indebted for my rights."
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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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"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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"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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"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."
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"To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense."
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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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