- GLC#
- GLC04717.41-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 12 November 1858
- Author/Creator
- Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
- Title
- Letter from Gerrit Smith to Rev. Dr. John Marsh; Letter from Gerrit Smith to Joshua R. Giddings.
- Place Written
- Peterboro, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 31.7 cm, Width: 19.9 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Smith responds to an editorial published by Marsh, editor of Journal and Prohibitionist, New York. Marsh accused Smith of being "unsound on Temperance." Also replies to a published letter from Giddings, in which Giddings sought to defend the Republican party. Calls Republicanism a "one-idea-Party" unwilling to eradicate slavery.
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