Know-Nothingism received no recognition, and the double-faced issue of the restoration of the Missouri compromise was disowned, while the freedom of Kansas was dealt with as a mere incident of the conflict between liberty and slavery.
Julian critiques the political landscape by rejecting the Know-Nothing movement and emphasizing the central conflict between liberty and slavery.
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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.
No sophistry could disguise this fact, nor could its significance be overstated.
It is not a mistake merely, but a great misfortune, that our laws touching so delicate and vital a question as the ownership and transfer of mineral lands were not so framed as to avert these frightful evils.
It tempts civilized men to become savages and savages to become devils.
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