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- GLC#
- GLC04717.21-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 13 March 1855
- Author/Creator
- Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
- Title
- to William Henry Seward
- Place Written
- Peterboro, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 24.9 cm, Width: 19.2 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Smith writes to Seward, a United States Senator from New York. Praises Seward's intellectualism and philanthropic spirit. Notes that Seward's recent speech on the Fugitive Slave Act "does not, in all respects, come up to my expectation of what would fall from you on such as occasion." Questions Seward's dedication to abolition. In closing, writes "I own, that you stand, as an antislavery man, very far above most of our statesmen. But I would have you stand still farther above them."
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