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This open and insolent defiance of the national authority could not fail to strengthen anti-slavery opinion in the Northern States.
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Julian argues that defiance against national authority bolstered anti-slavery sentiments in the North.
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Custom, and the faculty of adaptation, have a very reconciling influence upon communities as well as individuals.
In the light of this fact alone, it is impossible to account for the perfectly unbounded and irrepressible enthusiasm which swept over the land during the campaign, and so signally routed the forces of Democracy.
But this treatment of the Abolitionists was manifestly unjust.
It rallied the Whig masses like a grand battle-cry.
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