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The policy of both parties to the struggle was thus subordinated to the protection of slavery.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “The policy of both parties to the struggle was thus subordinated to the protection of slavery.”
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Julian asserts that the protection of slavery was prioritized by both sides during the Civil War, affecting their strategies.
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Moreover, men absorbed in a feverish and hazardous industry, and stimulated by the hope of sudden wealth, are not disposed to consider the advantages of permanent ownership and security of title.
The laws regulating the ownership and disposition of landed property not only affect the well-being but frequently the destiny of a people.
They seemed totally unconscious of the fact that human nature is essentially the same in all parties, and that a mere change of men without any change of system would be fruitless.
It was hollow and false, and the best men in the party felt it.
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