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Van Buren had attempted to shelter the slave trade under the national flag.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “Van Buren had attempted to shelter the slave trade under the national flag.”
Editor's note · Context
Julian accuses Van Buren of supporting the slave trade under the U.S. flag, illustrating his condemnation of political leaders who enable slavery.
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Custom, and the faculty of adaptation, have a very reconciling influence upon communities as well as individuals.
The times are bad, and want curing; They are getting past all enduring; Let us turn out Martin Van Buren, And put in old Tippecanoe.
The movement of 1840 was necessarily transient and provisional, while underneath its clatter and nonsense was a real issue.
He was unquestionably honest and patriotic, and the fact that he was a poor man, and a plain farmer of the West, could properly form no objection to his character or his fitness for the Presidency.
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