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But as the nominee of his party, fairly committed to its principles and measures touching the unsettled questions of reconstruction and suffrage, I saw no other practicable alternative than to give him my support.
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Julian explains his reluctant support for a party nominee, highlighting the complexities of political allegiance.
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The times are bad, and want curing; They are getting past all enduring; Let us turn out Martin Van Buren, And put in old Tippecanoe.
If it had been morally possible, I would have supported him gladly.
But this treatment of the Abolitionists was manifestly unjust.
It was completely at war with the genius and spirit of democratic government.
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