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My revolt against its discipline forcibly reminded me of the year 1848, and was by far the severest political trial of my life.
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Julian describes his political revolt as one of the most challenging trials of his life.
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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 fate of the men involved in it seems like a perfect travesty of justice and fair play.
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…
He hated slavery with the animosity of a regular Puritan, and when he talked about it everybody listened.
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