And how was it possible to fall from political grace by withdrawing from the fellowship of the knaves and traders that formed the body-guard of the President, and were using the Republican party as the instrument of wholesale schemes of jobbery and pelf?
Julian critiques the idea that leaving corrupt political circles equates to betrayal.
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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.
The people took the work of politics into their own keeping, and the leaders became followers.
But this treatment of the Abolitionists was manifestly unjust.
If it had been morally possible, I would have supported him gladly.
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