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4 April 1849
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
to President Green, Whitesboro
Addresses a chief difference: "You have none, whilst I have the utmost confidence, in the capabilities of the masses to take care of themselves."
GLC04717.48
7 July 1849
At the meeting of the "Church of Peterboro," held July 7th, 1849, the following Resolutions were passed, without a dissenting voice...
Accuses a clerk and store owner who sell liquor as being "out of...place" for preaching the gospel. A second resolution attests that no members of the Church of Peterboro are guilty of voting for anti-abolitionists or drinking intoxicating liquors....
GLC04717.50
20 July 1849
To the Church of Peterboro
Uses an allegory of a tea, coffee, and liquor merchant to illustrate that "the wickedness in one branch... taints with wickedness every other branch..."
GLC04717.51
9 August 1849
to Hiram P. Crozier, New York
Defends the Resolutions of the Church of Peterboro, which Crozier criticized. Chastises Crozier for running a store that sells liquor, declaring "iniquity, permitted in one of the branches of the store, stamps the whole store with iniquity."...
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4 January 1850
to John Cochran, Isaac T. Hopper, Daniel C. Eaton, George H. Evans, and William Kemeys
Smith writes to prominent men he chose to designate the distribution of gifts of land and money among five hundred males and females from New York. Notes that he will not give the females land, but will instead bestow $50 upon each of them....
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24 May 1844
To the persons who derive title from myself or my late father to land in Charlotte River and Byrne's Tracts, in the Counties of Delaware, Otsego, and Schoharie
Discusses the authenticity of land titles, possibly for land he previously gifted to African Americans in need. Suspects that Native Americans told residents that the land titles were inauthentic in order to obtain timber from the property.
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21 December 1857
From the New York Tribune. Mr. Gerrit Smith on the President's message. The currency and the hard times.
Smith writes, "There is nothing in the nature of civil government, and there is nothing in the Constitution, to justify the Federal Government in banking, or in undertaking to authorize it in others." Also criticizes economists' reference to slavery...
GLC04717.70
1856
Kelley, William D., 1814-1890
An Address Delivered by Hon. William D. Kelley at Girard Avenue, Above Eleventh St. on October 3rd, 1856
Published by "Philadelphia Morning Times", No. 3. Discusses various topics including the character of the Republican Party, threats of dissolution of the Union, and emigration from the South to the North. Includes a map of the U.S. showing "free...
GLC01265.05
27 April 1835
Krepp, B., fl. 1835
to Nathaniel Wordin
Describes the area where he lives in Mississippi as a clearing in the middle of an immense forest with a few houses and about 1600 inhabitants, half of them slaves. Reports that they have a Methodist and a Presbyterian church and a temperance...
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1 March 1860
[Photograph of John Browned signed commission for Harper's Ferry]
A photograph of the commission, signed by John Brown as Commander in Chief, appointing Owen Brown a captain in John Brown's army. Document is dated 13 October 1859. Photograph is mounted on heavy piece of cardboard. The photograph is 14.5 x 20 cm...
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