Speeches and Letters of Gerrit Smith ...: On the Rebellion ...J. A. Gray & Green, printers, 1864 - United States |
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... possible cavil and complaint at this point out of the mouth of the South . The whole South wrote or talked for Slavery . But it was only a small portion of the North which wrote or talked against it . Most of the Northern people either ...
... possible cavil and complaint at this point out of the mouth of the South . The whole South wrote or talked for Slavery . But it was only a small portion of the North which wrote or talked against it . Most of the Northern people either ...
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... possible , then should we all rejoice in it . Should we hear to - night that a Southern black regiment has overcome a rebel white one , would we not all swing our hats ? Would not even the Democrats ? It would indeed put to shame some ...
... possible , then should we all rejoice in it . Should we hear to - night that a Southern black regiment has overcome a rebel white one , would we not all swing our hats ? Would not even the Democrats ? It would indeed put to shame some ...
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... possible lack in it . Nothing is so mighty to convert men to the right as bravery for the right . The fearless and unhesitating leader is the one they love to follow . Had the tide in our nation's affairs been taken at the Sumter flood ...
... possible lack in it . Nothing is so mighty to convert men to the right as bravery for the right . The fearless and unhesitating leader is the one they love to follow . Had the tide in our nation's affairs been taken at the Sumter flood ...
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... possible way as our noble and beloved soldiers . Another argument for allowing the soldiers to vote is , that here one of them who is a Democrat and there one of them who is a Republican will , under some excuse or other , go home to ...
... possible way as our noble and beloved soldiers . Another argument for allowing the soldiers to vote is , that here one of them who is a Democrat and there one of them who is a Republican will , under some excuse or other , go home to ...
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... possible risks that the Union , the Constitution , and the country might go down with it ? I answer , I would . I answer , I make no calculation at all at that point . My only duty has been , from the first , the putting down of this ...
... possible risks that the Union , the Constitution , and the country might go down with it ? I answer , I would . I answer , I make no calculation at all at that point . My only duty has been , from the first , the putting down of this ...
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Page 59 - Tell me not of rights — talk not of the property of the planter in his slaves. I deny the right — I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature, rise in rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain you tell me of laws that sanction such a claim ! There is a law above all the enactments of human codes— the same throughout the world, the same in all times — such...
Page 59 - ... at this day : it is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man ; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they shall reject with indignation the wild and guilty fantasy, that man can hold property in man ! In vain you appeal to treaties, to covenants between nations.
Page 57 - What right has the North assailed? What interest of the South has been invaded? What justice has been denied? And what claim founded in justice and right has been withheld? Can either of you, to-day, name one governmental act of wrong, deliberately and purposely done by the government of Washington, of which the South has a right to complain? I challenge the answer.
Page 16 - And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!
Page 33 - Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee ? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
Page 15 - The abolition of the power usurped by the Supreme Court of the United States to pass upon the constitutionality of the legislation enacted by Congress.
Page 6 - Right here, at this great error, is it probable that our nation will perish, if perish it must. The breaking out of the Rebellion found the nation so debauched by slavery as to be incapable of meeting the Rebellion on the one square and simple itsue of putting it down.
Page 57 - ... justification ? What right has the North assailed ? What interest of the South has been invaded? What justice has been denied ? and what claim, founded in justice and right, has been withheld ? Can either of you, to-day, name one governmental act of wrong, deliberately and purposely done by the government, of which the South has a right to complain ? I challenge the answer...
Page 9 - You imply that had there been as much homogeneousness between these peoples as is found " in the portions traversed by the great East and West lines of commerce," there would have been no Rebellion. I agree with you. But I bid you remember that this is the homogeneousness of anti-slavery
Page 11 - Providence, which has brought you again into high political power. On the contrary, I submissively accept it as a part of the penalty of the American people for their oppressions of the poor.