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George Julian: “No vindication of the maligned Liberals of 1872 could have been more complete, while it summoned to the bar of history…”

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No vindication of the maligned Liberals of 1872 could have been more complete, while it summoned to the bar of history the party whose action had thus brought shame upon the Nation and a stain upon Republican institutions.
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George Julian
Republican · Indiana

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Julian asserts that the Liberals of 1872 were completely vindicated by subsequent political events.

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