Excerpt from Speeches and Letters of Gerrit Smith: From January, 1863, to January, 1864 on the Rebellion At once should the President have brought out the Big Eman pationigun: and he should have so charged it, and so aimed it, as not to spare one shred of slavery in all the land. The Rebellion Would have been ended by the first fire. And what right had'the rebels to our shrinking and. Delay - rebels who, without the least provocation, so malignantly and 'murderously struck at our all 1' at the life' of our country, and therefore at our all? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.