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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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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
Tags: turkey, rights, cannot, america
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
Tags: your, nothing, you, man
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
Tags: right, free, poor, men
True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.
— Gerrit Smith
Tags: slavery, never, war, peace
I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.
— Gerrit Smith
Tags: need, say, more, slavery
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