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The people of Indiana had no right to take advantage of their own wrong, or to sacrifice the welfare of four million blacks on the altar of Northern consistency.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “The people of Indiana had no right to take advantage of their own wrong, or to sacrifice the welfare of four million…”
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Julian argues against sacrificing the rights of African Americans for the sake of Northern political consistency.
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