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George Julian: “My new position not only placed me in very strange relations to the Democrats, whose misdeeds I had so earnestly…”

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My new position not only placed me in very strange relations to the Democrats, whose misdeeds I had so earnestly denounced for years; but I could not fail to see that the great body of my old friends would now become my unrelenting foes.
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George Julian
Republican · Indiana

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Julian discusses the strange dynamics of his new political position and the shift in relationships with former allies.

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