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George Julian: “They even proposed a Constitutional amendment which would have made slavery perpetual in the Republic; but the pampered…”

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They even proposed a Constitutional amendment which would have made slavery perpetual in the Republic; but the pampered frenzy of the slave oligarchy defied all remedies, and hurried it headlong into the bloody conspiracy which was to close forever its career of besotted lawlessness and crime.
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George Julian
Republican · Indiana

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Julian condemns the extreme measures proposed by some Republicans that would have entrenched slavery in the Constitution.

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