The case was a very curious one, and the more I considered it, the more astonished I became at the strange indifference of the Government, and that no public man of any party had ever given the subject the slightest attention.
Julian expresses astonishment at the government's indifference to land policy issues.
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They seemed totally unconscious of the fact that human nature is essentially the same in all parties, and that a mere change of men without any change of system would be fruitless.
The movement of 1840 was necessarily transient and provisional, while underneath its clatter and nonsense was a real issue.
It rallied the Whig masses like a grand battle-cry.
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