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The demand for reform, as often as made, was instantly rebuked, and the men who uttered it branded as enemies of the party and sympathizers with treason.
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Julian highlights the backlash faced by those advocating for political reform within his party.
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They cripple a great national industry and source of wealth, and insult the principles of American jurisprudence.
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.
It was completely at war with the genius and spirit of democratic government.
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