George Julian: “The case affords a strange commentary upon the principle of historic justice.”

Was some miracle to be wrought through which the slave-masters were to be transfigured into negro apostles and devotees?

They scourge the mining States and Territories with the unspeakable curse of uncertainty of land titles, as everywhere attested by incurable litigation and strife.

Such a state of affairs is worse than pestilence or famine; but the evil of uncertain titles puts on new and very aggravated forms in our gold-bearing regions.

I not only meant that they should not be ashamed of it, but that, if possible, it should stand the test of criticism, both as to matter and diction.