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1864
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Speeches and letters of Gerrit Smith (from January, 1863, to January, 1864) on the rebellion.
Published by John A. Gray & Green, printers. Includes various letters and speeches by Smith.
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1865
Speeches and letters of Gerrit Smith (from January, 1864, to January, 1865), on the rebellion. Volume II.
Published by the American News Company. Contains Smith's opinion on the Constitution of the United States in relation to the Civil War, the Democratic Party, and other topics.
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5 February 1873
Gerrit Smith to Susan B. Anthony
Smith writes to Anthony, the legendary activist and reformer: "Why men have the ballot and women hav'nt it, and why they have so much else in which they refuse to let women share, originates in the simple fact, that the superior physical strength is...
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15 August 1873
Woman suffrage above human law. Letter from Gerrit Smith.
Smith writes to Anthony, the legendary activist and reformer, discussing women's right to vote. Sends Anthony money to pay a fine, and declares that if she chooses not to pay the fine, she should use the money at her discretion "to promote the cause...
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8 March 1871
Letter from Gerrit Smith on temperance. To the thoughful and candid of the County of Madison.
Discusses a local election, which was won by the Anti-dramshop ticket. Still feels despondent, writing: "Nothing, however, at the present time, stands so much in the way of the success of the cause of temperance as the fear cherished by tens of...
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6 November 1872
Gerrit Smith to the Anti-Dramshop Party. A mutual disappointment!
Smith, active in the temperance movement, discusses the Republican, Democratic, Anti-Dramshop, and Prohibition political parties.
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14 February 1873
A letter from the Hon. Gerrit Smith, to the Cuban Anti-Slavery Committee, New York.
Smith writes, "As I view it, our Government should, long ago, have conceded belligerent rights to the Cubans struggling for freedom from the yoke of Spain and from the yoke of Slavery... The world is too far advanced in a rational civilization and in...
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4 July 1873
Let crushed Cuba arise! Substance of the speech of Gerrit Smith, in Syracuse, July 4th 1873.
Smith writes, "In our Fourth of July celebrations there are two events, which, far above all other events, we come together to celebrate. One of these is the deliverance of our country, nearly a century ago, from political despotism, and the other...
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1 December 1873
Spain. --- Cuba.
Discusses Spain's history of slaveholding and the role of other nations to end slavery in Cuba.
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13 March 1871
The West Point mob.
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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