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It marked a new and significant departure in party politics, and was a conspicuous milestone in the anti-slavery journey.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “It marked a new and significant departure in party politics, and was a conspicuous milestone in the anti-slavery…”
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Julian highlights the significance of the National Free Soil Convention as a pivotal moment in anti-slavery politics.
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They scourge the mining States and Territories with the unspeakable curse of uncertainty of land titles, as everywhere attested by incurable litigation and strife.
It may thus happen that a system of laws initiated by itinerant miners solely for the protection of their transient posessory interests, and carried through Congress at their behest by parliamentary roguery, may be permanently engrafted…
And the misfortune of this legislation is heightened by the probability of its continuance; for it is not easy to uproot a body of laws once accepted by a people, however mischievous in their character.
It was completely at war with the genius and spirit of democratic government.
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