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George Julian: “I was obliged, also, to encounter a prevailing but perfectly unwarranted presumption that the representatives of the…”

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I was obliged, also, to encounter a prevailing but perfectly unwarranted presumption that the representatives of the mining States were the best judges of the question in dispute, while it was foolishly regarded as a local one, with which the old States had no concern.
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George Julian
Republican · Indiana

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Julian addresses the misconception that representatives from mining states are the best judges of mining issues.

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