There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor.
Gerrit SmithIt 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.
Gerrit SmithI prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
Gerrit Smith