George Julian: “Although they were everywhere totally misunderstood and grossly misrepresented, they clearly comprehended their work and…”

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.

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

But as to slavery he seemed to have no conscience, regarding it as a matter of total moral indifference, and thus completely confounding the distinction between right and wrong.

The feeling against him became perfectly relentless, as I distinctly remember it, and shared in it myself; but on referring to the message now, I am astonished at the comparative moderation of its tone, and the strength of its positions.