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To be permitted to witness the final success of the grandest movement of ancient or modern times was a blessed opportunity.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “To be permitted to witness the final success of the grandest movement of ancient or modern times was a blessed…”
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Julian reflects on the significance of witnessing a major historical movement, likely related to civil rights or abolition.
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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.
It is not a mistake merely, but a great misfortune, that our laws touching so delicate and vital a question as the ownership and transfer of mineral lands were not so framed as to avert these frightful evils.
No situation could well be more deplorable than that which obliges a man to pay heavy black- mail as the only means of saving his property from legal confiscation by another; and the moral ravages of a code which allows this can not be…
They scourge the mining States and Territories with the unspeakable curse of uncertainty of land titles, as everywhere attested by incurable litigation and strife.
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