George Julian: “No sophistry could disguise this fact, nor could its significance be overstated.”

But this treatment of the Abolitionists was manifestly unjust.

They cripple a great national industry and source of wealth, and insult the principles of American jurisprudence.

The feeling against him became perfectly relentless, as I distinctly remember it, and shared in it myself; but on referring to the message now, I am astonished at the comparative moderation of its tone, and the strength of its positions.

It tempts civilized men to become savages and savages to become devils.