The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.
Gerrit SmithOur political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.
Gerrit SmithI prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
Gerrit Smith