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It was very savingly felt in Congress in July of this year, on the vote by which Oregon, with a territory nearly equal to that of the thirteen original States, narrowly escaped the damnation of slavery.
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Julian recalls a crucial moment in Congress that helped prevent the spread of slavery into Oregon.
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The fate of the men involved in it seems like a perfect travesty of justice and fair play.
He hated slavery with the animosity of a regular Puritan, and when he talked about it everybody listened.
The tyranny of industrial domination, which borrows its life from the alliance of concentrated capital with labor-saving machinery, must be overthrown.
The case affords a strange commentary upon the principle of historic justice.
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