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If he had succeeded, with mere politicians in his cabinet, a Congress against him, and only a partially developed anti-slavery sentiment behind him, the cause of freedom would have been in fearful peril.
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Julian warns that Fremont's success would have endangered the anti-slavery cause given the political landscape.
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