Gerrit Smith Slavery Quotations

Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.

It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

There is no room in our ranks for the politician, who, to secure the votes of the youth, would consent that American slavery be perpetual.