Monday, March 26, 2018

Diary of Gerrit Smith: September 2, 1835

We returned to Utica in time to attend  a great anti-abolition meeting. My friend J. A. S made a good speech in it — in the main very good. The proceedings, aside from this speech, were not agreeable to my feelings. Christian morality did not characterize them.

SOURCE: Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Gerrit Smith: A Biography, p. 164

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