On the record
This persistent purpose of the Administration to save the Union and save slavery with it, naturally provoked criticism, and angered the anti-slavery feeling of the loyal States.
Source
gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “This persistent purpose of the Administration to save the Union and save slavery with it, naturally provoked criticism…”
Editor's note · Context
Julian critiques the Administration's contradictory approach to saving the Union while maintaining slavery, which fueled anti-slavery sentiments.
Share
More from George Julian
The fate of the men involved in it seems like a perfect travesty of justice and fair play.
He carried his religion courageously into politics, and while arraigning slavery as the grand rebel, he also severely criticised the management of the war and the Border State policy of the President.
The legalized robbery now carried on in the name of Protection to American labor must be overthrown.
The system of agricultural serfdom called Land Monopoly, which is now putting on new forms of danger in the rapid multiplication of great estates and the purchase of vast bodies of lands by foreign capitalists, must be resisted as a still…
Other voices in this conversation
