George Julian: “Grant, but earnestly protested against the policy that sought to Tammany-ize the organization through his re-nomination.”

Was some miracle to be wrought through which the slave-masters were to be transfigured into negro apostles and devotees?

He was a man of undoubted bravery, and had made a most honorable record, both as a soldier and a civilian, upon ample trial in both capacities.

They scourge the mining States and Territories with the unspeakable curse of uncertainty of land titles, as everywhere attested by incurable litigation and strife.

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.