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The leaders of Grant, borrowing the spirit of the campaign, set all the canons of decency at defiance.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “The leaders of Grant, borrowing the spirit of the campaign, set all the canons of decency at defiance.”
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Julian condemns the lack of decency shown by Grant's leaders during the political campaign.
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But this treatment of the Abolitionists was manifestly unjust.
Something more than empty promises and windy declamation was necessary, and that something, in an evil hour, was supplied by the Democrats themselves.
The people took the work of politics into their own keeping, and the leaders became followers.
He was the most conspicuous public rascal of his time, but was far from being alone in his odious notoriety.
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