- GLC#
- GLC04717.32-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 18, 1848
- Author/Creator
- Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
- Title
- Letter of Gerrit Smith, to the Liberty Party of New-Hampshire
- Place Written
- Peterboro, New York
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 31.9 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Criticizes the Liberty Party of New Hampshire for voting for slaveholders. Encourages the state to reconstruct a "true" liberty party, "a Party, which will sooner perish than vote for a proslavery man- and a Party, too, which will practically recognize the doctrine of the equal rights of all men."
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