It seemed to me I had been born into a new life, and that the world was overflowing with beauty and joy, while I was inexpressibly thankful for the privilege of recording my name on so glorious a page of the nation's history, and in testimony of an event so long only dreamed of as possible in the distant future.
Julian expresses his personal feelings of joy and gratitude for being part of a historic moment in the fight for emancipation.
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The fate of the men involved in it seems like a perfect travesty of justice and fair play.
The system of spoils and plunder must also be destroyed, in order that freedom itself may be rescued from the perilous activities quickened into life by its own spirit, and the conduct of public affairs inspired by the great moralities…
The case affords a strange commentary upon the principle of historic justice.
He carried his religion courageously into politics, and while arraigning slavery as the grand rebel, he also severely criticised the management of the war and the Border State policy of the President.
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