They characterized it as the distilled diabolism of two hundred years of slavery, stealthily aiming at the overthrow of our Republican institutions, while seeking to hide its nakedness under the fig-leaves of judicial fairness and dignity.
Julian criticizes the judicial opinion as a deceptive attempt to undermine American democracy.
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They thus undermine the morals of the people, and pave the way for violence and crime.
Was some miracle to be wrought through which the slave-masters were to be transfigured into negro apostles and devotees?
If it had been morally possible, I would have supported him gladly.
The efforts to belittle his merits and defile his good name became systematic, and degenerated into the most unpardonable personal abuse and political defamation.
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