They argued that to cut down the issue between slavery and freedom to so narrow, equivocal, and half-hearted a measure, at a time when every consideration pleaded for radical and thorough work, was practical infidelity to the cause and the crisis.
Julian emphasizes the need for a radical approach to the slavery issue rather than a half-hearted measure.
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The system of public plunder inaugurated by Jackson was in full blast, and an organized effort to reform it was the real need of the hour; but here was the weak point of the Whigs.
Was some miracle to be wrought through which the slave-masters were to be transfigured into negro apostles and devotees?
It was hollow and false, and the best men in the party felt it.
Custom, and the faculty of adaptation, have a very reconciling influence upon communities as well as individuals.
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