[Below] "At church pulpits
in Troy, Utica, Manhattan, Syracuse, and Brooklyn, Gerrith Smith's agents
preached the gospel of the "Smith Lands." "They advertised the
grants in handbills and promoted them at temperance meetings and in black
newspapers."
"You
certainly deprive yourself of a most interesting right, in declining to see a
gathering of the Grantees. Tall, stalwart, hard fisted, they embody a Hope of
the Race."
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