They became unspeakably bitter and venomous, and I never before encountered such torrents of abuse and defamation, outstripping, as it seemed to me, even the rabidness which confronted the Abolitionists in their early experience.
Julian reflects on the intense hostility he faced during his political career, comparing it to the experiences of early Abolitionists.
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