George Julian: “Step by step I saw my constituents march up to my position, and the district at last completely disenthralled by the…”

But as to slavery he seemed to have no conscience, regarding it as a matter of total moral indifference, and thus completely confounding the distinction between right and wrong.

Something more than empty promises and windy declamation was necessary, and that something, in an evil hour, was supplied by the Democrats themselves.

Custom, and the faculty of adaptation, have a very reconciling influence upon communities as well as individuals.

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…