Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874 to Governor Chase, Ohio
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04717.24 Author/Creator: Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874 Place Written: Peterboro, New York Type: Printed letter Date: 30 January 1856 Pagination: 4 p. ; 31.7 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
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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