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- GLC#
- GLC04717.25-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- March 13, 1856
- Author/Creator
- Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
- Title
- Speech of Gerrit Smith in the Kansas meeting, at the capitol in Albany, March 13th 1856.
- Place Written
- Albany, New York
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 31.2 cm, Width: 19.2 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson Slavery & Anti-slavery
At the Capitol in Albany. Criticizes Missouri aid societies that offer large bounties to proslavery inhabitants of Kansas. Deplores the allowance of slavery in Missouri, referring to the Missouri Compromise as liberty bargaining with slavery. Also condemns violation of the Compromise. Declares, "The right ballots could kill slavery this year. But delay a few years, and it will take bayonets to do it."
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