It failed utterly of its purpose, and this historic resolve of Congress was only useful to the rebels, who never failed to wield it as a weapon against us, after the teaching of events had compelled us to make slavery the point of attack.
Julian critiques the effectiveness of Congress's resolve during the Civil War, highlighting its unintended consequences for the rebels.
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It was completely at war with the genius and spirit of democratic government.
They cripple a great national industry and source of wealth, and insult the principles of American jurisprudence.
It may thus happen that a system of laws initiated by itinerant miners solely for the protection of their transient posessory interests, and carried through Congress at their behest by parliamentary roguery, may be permanently engrafted…
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.
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