George Julian: “It threatened discord and mischief, and I went to the President with these facts, and on the strength of them demanded…”

I not only meant that they should not be ashamed of it, but that, if possible, it should stand the test of criticism, both as to matter and diction.

It was hollow and false, and the best men in the party felt it.

Was some miracle to be wrought through which the slave-masters were to be transfigured into negro apostles and devotees?

But this treatment of the Abolitionists was manifestly unjust.