George Julian: “Moreover, he had had no training whatever in civil administration, and no one thought of him as a statesman.”

He carried his religion courageously into politics, and while arraigning slavery as the grand rebel, he also severely criticised the management of the war and the Border State policy of the President.

The withdrawal of the slavery question from the strife of parties has changed the face of our politics as completely as did its introduction.

The system of agricultural serfdom called Land Monopoly, which is now putting on new forms of danger in the rapid multiplication of great estates and the purchase of vast bodies of lands by foreign capitalists, must be resisted as a still…

The tyranny of industrial domination, which borrows its life from the alliance of concentrated capital with labor-saving machinery, must be overthrown.