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- GLC#
- GLC04717.24-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 30, 1856
- Author/Creator
- Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
- Title
- to Governor Chase, Ohio
- Place Written
- Peterboro, New York
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 31.7 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Smith writes to Salmon Portland Chase, Governor of Ohio, also an abolitionist. Expresses his disappointment in Chase's Inaugural Address: "The habit of the whole country is to justify the pretensions of slavery, and, therefore, to adopt the slaveholders' interpretations of the Constitution:- and even Salmon P. Chase is so enslaved to this miserable and guilty habit, as to lack courage and energy to break out of it."
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