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1864/1/22
Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?
Sends his mother a box of sea shells and pebbles that he has collected. Describes three types of shells and instructs her on deodorizing them.
GLC04662.055
1864/1/30
"I attended a hop at Gen'l Saxton's, and saw some real live ladies, and danced with them!" Is considering buying confiscated lands, but thinks the speculators may have beaten him to them.
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Spain. --- Cuba.
December 1, 1873
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Discusses Spain's history of slaveholding and the role of other nations to end slavery in Cuba.
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to John Cochran, Isaac T. Hopper, Daniel C. Eaton, George H. Evans, and William Kemeys
4 January 1850
Smith writes to prominent men he chose to designate the distribution of gifts of land and money among five hundred males and females from New York. Notes that he will not give the females land, but will instead bestow $50 upon each of them....
GLC04717.65
The West Point mob.
13 March 1871
Smith discusses recent mob activity at West Point, New York: "Nothing else is so frightful as a mob- that many-headed monster, whose every head refuses to be controlled. Mobs and their dramshop inspiration threaten the ruin of our country. Ours is...
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Hon. H. C. Goodwin, M.C.
5 January 1855
Smith writes, "I am happy to see, in the proceedings of the House of Representatives, the proposition to take up the Bill for the relief of the sufferers by French spoliations... We must remember the condition of our country in 1778, in order to...
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Hon. F. Whittlesey of Rochester
February 1, 1845
Criticizes Whittlesey for advocating a plan for higher rates of toll on the Oswego River than on the western part of the Erie Canal. Smith calls it "discrimination in tolls." Whittlesey served as a United States Representative from New York 1831...
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To the persons who derive title from myself or my late father to land in Charlotte River and Byrne's Tracts, in the Counties of Delaware, Otsego, and Schoharie
24 May 1844
Discusses the authenticity of land titles, possibly for land he previously gifted to African Americans in need. Suspects that Native Americans told residents that the land titles were inauthentic in order to obtain timber from the property.
GLC04717.69
From the New York Tribune. Mr. Gerrit Smith on the President's message. The currency and the hard times.
December 21, 1857
Smith writes, "There is nothing in the nature of civil government, and there is nothing in the Constitution, to justify the Federal Government in banking, or in undertaking to authorize it in others." Also criticizes economists' reference to slavery...
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Speech of Gerrit Smith (to his neighbors) in Peterboro, N.Y., June 22d 1872.
22 June 1872
Smith writes "The Democratic Party is my dread. The Republican Party is my hope... I need not say that it is not the original Democratic Party- the party of my childhood and youth... But this modern Democratic party- this degenerate Democratic party...
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to Horace Greeley
1 October 1872
Mentions Greeley's run for the Presidency, noting "It is surely not for me to question the propriety of your being upon an electioneering tour." Agrees with Greeley that the reconciliation of the North and South should be the focus of the campaign...
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