It was an event of very great significance, both North and South, and gave great comfort to anti-slavery men of all shades of opinion; but it brought with it, at the same time, a serious peril to the Republican party.
Julian discusses the significant impact of a particular event on both anti-slavery advocates and the Republican party.
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It rallied the Whig masses like a grand battle-cry.
It was completely at war with the genius and spirit of democratic government.
In the light of this fact alone, it is impossible to account for the perfectly unbounded and irrepressible enthusiasm which swept over the land during the campaign, and so signally routed the forces of Democracy.
He was a man of undoubted bravery, and had made a most honorable record, both as a soldier and a civilian, upon ample trial in both capacities.
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