OF

GERRIT SMITH

IN

CONGRESS.

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ENTERED according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855,

BY MASON BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the

Southern District of New-York.

JOHN A. GRAY, PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER

95 and 97 Cliff street, N. Y.

THE papers collected in this volume, are copied, without change, from their original publication.

Mr. Smith was in Congress but a single Session. That Session began December 5, 1853, and ended August 7, 1864. Owing to bad health, he did not take his seat until December 12th.