Gerrit Smith Quotes
I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.
Citations
Smith, Gerrit. Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress. Mason Brothers, 1855.
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Gerrit Smith, also spelled Gerritt, was a leading American social reformer, abolitionist, politician, and philanthropist. Spouse to Ann Carroll Fitzhugh, Smith was a candidate for President of the United States in 1848, 1856, and 1860, but only served 18 months in the federal government—in Congress as a Free Soil Party Representative, in 1853–4.