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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• Gerrit Smith:

  I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

• Gerrit Smith:

  I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal famil

• Gerrit Smith:

  I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

• Gerrit Smith:

  I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'

• Gerrit Smith:

  I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

• Gerrit Smith:

  It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence o

• Gerrit Smith:

  It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political a

• Gerrit Smith:

  It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern;

• Gerrit Smith:

  Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discus

• Gerrit Smith:

  Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, can