Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874 Letter of Gerrit Smith, to the Liberty Party of New-Hampshire

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GLC#
GLC04717.32-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
18 March 1848
Author/Creator
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
Title
Letter of Gerrit Smith, to the Liberty Party of New-Hampshire
Place Written
Peterboro, New York
Pagination
3 p. : Height: 31.9 cm, Width: 20 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

Criticizes the Liberty Party of New Hampshire for voting for slaveholders. Encourages the state to reconstruct a "true" liberty party, "a Party, which will sooner perish than vote for a proslavery man- and a Party, too, which will practically recognize the doctrine of the equal rights of all men."

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