Washington was largely a city of secessionists, and the departments of the Government were plentifully supplied by sympathizers with treason, while the effort put forth at this session to dislodge them was not responded to by the Administration.
Julian comments on the political climate in Washington during the Civil War, highlighting the presence of secessionist sympathizers.
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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 rallied the Whig masses like a grand battle-cry.
It was hollow and false, and the best men in the party felt it.
They cripple a great national industry and source of wealth, and insult the principles of American jurisprudence.
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