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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. - Gerrit Smith
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I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system. - Gerrit Smith
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I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families. - Gerrit Smith
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I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals. - Gerrit Smith
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I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric. - Gerrit Smith
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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. - Gerrit Smith
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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. - Gerrit Smith
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But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts. - Gerrit Smith
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As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men. - Gerrit Smith
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The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash. - Gerrit Smith
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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. - Gerrit Smith
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Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. - Gerrit Smith
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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. - Gerrit Smith
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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. - 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
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