Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874 to Governor Chase, Ohio

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GLC#
GLC04717.24-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
January 30, 1856
Author/Creator
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Title
to Governor Chase, Ohio
Place Written
Peterboro, New York
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 31.7 cm, Width: 20 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

Smith writes to Salmon Portland Chase, Governor of Ohio, also an abolitionist. Expresses his disappointment in Chase's Inaugural Address: "The habit of the whole country is to justify the pretensions of slavery, and, therefore, to adopt the slaveholders' interpretations of the Constitution:- and even Salmon P. Chase is so enslaved to this miserable and guilty habit, as to lack courage and energy to break out of it."

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